Using Dodge County, Georgia, as a case study, Peggy Barlett reveals consumerism, individualism, and short-term decision making as the greatest threats to the family farm.
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This study of family farms in Dodge County, Georgia, examines the social and economic factors that determine success in farming today. Bartlett, a professor of anthropology at Emory University, presents an agrarian history of Dodge County and its changes and transformations from frontier times to the present. The key period of her study is the boom-and-bust decade of the 1980s when the nation was in the grip of a farm crisis. Using data derived from interviews and personal observations of 124 small and medium-scale farm families, Bartlett describes in detail the coping strategies and management approaches of those who were determined to stay in farming and those who left. She explores family histories, personal aspirations, and attitudes about farming as a livelihood. Her interviews with farm women reveal a variety of role definitions and spousal relationships that enable farm families to remain intact. The aftermath of the crisis and its impacts on farm size, resource conservation, and management style offer insights for family farm survival in other communities. Recommended for agricultural economics and rural sociology collections.
- Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Irwin Weintraub, Rutgers Univ. Libs., Piscataway, N.J.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Along the back roads of Dodge County stand crumbling tenants' shacks, sagging old barns, and rotting mule wagons, mute testimony to the profound transformation in southern rural life over the last seventy years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
second career farmers, medium scale farms, cautious management style, spoon farmers, federal program rights, wiregrass settlers, one older farmer, farm management styles, medium scale farmers, medium scale operators, medium scale groups, farm survival, farm competitiveness, soil deficit, cautious farmers, marital model, agrarian ethic, farming style, one young farmer, wiregrass region, technology treadmill, ambitious style, family labor farms, good financial situation, agrarian perspective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dodge County, Dodge Countians, Farmers Home Administration, New Deal, Hoover Days, United States, Coastal Plain, African American, Census of Population, John Bennett, Conservation Reserve Program, King Cotton, Soil Bank New!
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Along the back roads of Dodge County stand crumbling tenants' shacks, sagging old barns, and rotting mule wagons, mute testimony to the profound transformation in southern rural life over the last seventy years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
second career farmers, medium scale farms, cautious management style, spoon farmers, federal program rights, wiregrass settlers, one older farmer, farm management styles, medium scale farmers, medium scale operators, medium scale groups, farm survival, farm competitiveness, soil deficit, cautious farmers, marital model, agrarian ethic, farming style, one young farmer, wiregrass region, technology treadmill, ambitious style, family labor farms, good financial situation, agrarian perspective Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dodge County, Dodge Countians, Farmers Home Administration, New Deal, Hoover Days, United States, Coastal Plain, African American, Census of Population, John Bennett, Conservation Reserve Program, King Cotton, Soil Bank New!
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- Economic Anthropology by Stuart Plattner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rural Sociology of the Advanced Societies by Frederick H. Buttel in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America by Steven Hahn in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mississippi Delta (Natural Wonders) by Jason Cooper in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Farm Financial Crisis: Socioeconomic Dimensions and Implications for Producers and Rural Areas (Westview Special Studies in Agriculture Science) by Steve H. Murdock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland by Kathryn Marie Dudley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America's Heartland by Kathryn Marie Dudley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Rural Radicals: Righteous Rage in the American Grain by Catherine McNicol Stock in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Agromedicine: Selected Papers From The First Ten Years Of The Journal Of Agromedicine by Stanley H Schuman on page 273
- Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural America (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and De) by Glen H. Elder Jr. in Back Matter
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