Plowed under : food policy protests and performance in new deal America / Ann Folino White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Ann Folino, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century.

Agriculture and state.

Protest movements--United States--History--20th century.

Protest movements.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and sows were slaughtered and discarded. Many Americans saw the government action as a senseless waste of food that left the hungry to starve, initiating public protests against food and farm policy. White approaches these events as performances where competing notions of morality and citizenship were a

Contents:

The New Deal vision for agriculture : USDA exhibits at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair

Milk dumping across America's dairyland : the May 1933 Wisconsin dairymen's strike

Playing "housewife" in Polonia : the 1935 Hamtramck (Michigan) women's meat boycott

Hunger on the highway in the cotton South : the 1939 Missouri sharecroppers' demonstration

Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act : the federal theatre project's triple-a plowed under.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015389

0253015383

OCLC:

893732487