Every Farm a Factory
Subtitle: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (Yale Agrarian Studies.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780300088137
Subjects: Agriculture & related industries; American history: from c 1900 -; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Politics/International Relations; USA; General; Industries - Agribusiness; Science / General; 20th century; Agricultural credit; Agriculture; Economic aspects; Family farms; History; United States
Description: "During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald investigates how and why farmers chose to modernize at that time, a period of serious economic depression in farming. She 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."--BOOK JACKET.