Debt and Dispossession
Subtitle: Farm Loss in America's Heartland
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780226169118
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; Economic History; Poverty; c 1980 to c 1990; Agricultural Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; USA; Agriculture - General; United States - 20th Century; Technology / Agriculture & Animal Husbandry; Finance; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Family farms; Middle West; Rural families
First sentence: When Dewayne Berg's prayers began to change, his wife knew something was wrong.
Description: "Through interviews with residents of an agricultural county in western Minnesota, Dudley chronicles the experience of financial failure in a culture that extols the virtues of independent business management, competitive production, and middle-class self-sufficiency.".

"Media images of the farm crisis fostered the impression that a majority of farmers banded together to protest the forced sales of neighboring farms. Dudley counters this misleading view with her perceptive analysis of the local "culture of suspicion" that rejects political activism, discourages solidarity among neighbors, and regards deeply indebted farmers as bad managers who deserve to lose their farms."--BOOK JACKET.