Every Farm a Factory The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture

Name: Every Farm a Factory The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
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ISBN: 9780300111286

ISBN-10: 0300111282

ISBN-13: 9780300111286

Edition: 2003

Authors: Deborah Fitzgerald

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Winner of the 2003 Saloutos Award for the best book on American agricultural history given by the Agricultural History Society During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industrialism. Fitzgerald examines how bankers and emerging professionals in engineering and economics pushed for systematic, businesslike farming. She discusses how factory practices served as a template for the creation across the…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/28/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.09" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.836