{"product_id":"fighting-for-the-farm-9780812218305","title":"Fighting for the Farm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the political dimensions of North American agriculture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The chapters do an excellent job of showing the intersection of structure and agency, including both powerful actors who alter structures in their own interests and grassroots movements that set up alternative structures and different interpretations of reality. . . . The authors of this volume analyze actors who are struggling to construct alternative food systems in harmony with humanity and nature.\" * \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Introduction - Jane Adams\u003cbr\u003e I. NORTH AMERICAN AGRICULTURE IN THE WORLD SYSTEM: OVERVIEW AND CASE STUDIES\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Social Economy of Development: The State of\/and the Imperial Valley - Alan P. Rudy\u003cbr\u003e 3. From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies - K. Murray Knuttila\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri - Douglas H. Constance, Anna M. Kleiner, and J. Sanford Rikoon\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups - Miriam J. Wells\u003cbr\u003e II. FOUNDATIONS OF TWENTIETH CENTURY U.S. POLICY\u003cbr\u003e 6. The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press - Stuart W. Shulman\u003cbr\u003e 7. Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State - Jess Gilbert\u003cbr\u003e 8. The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture - Mary Summers\u003cbr\u003e 9. The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s - Barry J. Barnett\u003cbr\u003e III. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF DAILY LIFE\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Entrepreneurial Self: Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community - Kathryn Marie Dudley\u003cbr\u003e 11. Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture - Laura B. DeLind\u003cbr\u003e THE POLITICS OF THE ENVIRONMENT\u003cbr\u003e 12. Canadian Agricultural Policy: Liberal, Global, and Sustainable - Alan Hall\u003cbr\u003e 13. Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse - Ann Reisner\u003cbr\u003e 14. Eating in the Gardens of Gaia: Envisioning Polycultural Communities - Harriet Friedmann\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405693395287,"sku":"9780812218305","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812218305.jpg?v=1730493302","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fighting-for-the-farm-9780812218305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}