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Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (Yale Agrarian Studies) [Hardcover]

Professor Deborah Fitzgerald (Author)

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Publication Date: February 8, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0300088132 | ISBN-13: 978-0300088137

During the early decades of the 20th century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this study Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernised in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural and ideological apparatus of industrialism. Fitzgerald examines how bankers and emerging professionals in engineering and economics pushed for systematic, businesslike farming. She discusses how factory practices served as a template for the creation across the country of industrial or corporate farms. She also looks at how farming was affected by this revolution and concludes by following several agricultural enthusiasts to the Soviet Union, where the lessons of industrial farming were studied.

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Deborah Fitzgerald is associate professor in the Programme in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (February 8, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300088132
ISBN-13: 978-0300088137
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
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