Plowed Under : Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The New Deal Vision for Agriculture -- 2 Milk Dumping across America's Dairyland -- 3 Playing "Housewife" in Polonia -- 4 Hunger on the Highway in the Cotton South -- 5 Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis.
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Agriculture and state - United States - History - 20th century.