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The politics of food supply : U.S. agricultural policy in the world economy / Bill Winders ; foreword by James C. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Winders, William, 1971-
- Series:
- Yale agrarian studies.
- Yale agrarian studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food supply--Political aspects--United States.
- Food supply.
- Agriculture and state--United States.
- Agriculture and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class, market, and state as they have affected the formulation and application of agricultural policy decisions since the New Deal, showing how divisions and coalitions within Southern, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt agriculture were central to the ebb and flow of price supports and production controls. In addition, the book highlights the roles played by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy to provide an invaluable analysis of past and recent trends in supply management policy.
- Contents:
- Introduction: agriculture between state and market
- The early battles lost: reaching for regulation, 1920-1932
- Winning supply management: a new deal for agriculture, 1933-1945
- Shifting agricultural coalitions: sliding back toward the free market, 1945-1975
- The decline of the South: changing power within U.S. agriculture, 1945-1975
- Agriculture and the changing world economy: the U.S. food regime, 1945-1990
- The 1996 FAIR Act: changing U.S. agricultural policy
- Epilogue. After FAIR : a new departure?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-263) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612089701
- 9786612353239
- 9781282089709
- 1282089706
- 9781282353237
- 1282353233
- 9780300156232
- 0300156235
- OCLC:
- 404723490
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