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Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
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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.
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Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
February 8th 2003
by Yale University Press
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Fitzgerald makes an important contribution to agricultural history when she looks at the logic of industrialization--who thought it was a good idea, who implemented aspects of it into rural America, how farmers received or rejected these changes, and under what parameters that logic was extended to other parts of the globe. She locates this transition primarily in the 1920s, as her so-called "agents of industrialization", primarily agricultural economists, industrial technology developers, agric
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If you look for a swift & decisive answer for why American agriculture industrialized, you would be disappointed. This book is more about an ambivalent era in which much anxiety surfaced in opinions about the mechanization of farm (both for it & against it).
I asked my students to compare the depiction of the countryside to the depiction of the city in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle . One particularly astute student told me that it seemed like the conditions described in Sinclair’s slaughterhouses mirrored the conditions Steinbeck describes in agricultural fields. In the 30 some years between the books Steinbeck's farms looks more like Sinclair’s city than Sinclair’s countryside. In some ways, the industrial changes my student noticed are real. Industr
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This book is a successful environmental history book due to its narrow focus (12 years on a Montana farm) pinpointing an agricultural practice in America that transformed farming from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. Deborah Fitzgerald demonstrates how the adoption of new machinery as well as the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus developed during the industrial revolution in product manufacturing allowed farms to modernize during the 1920s. Fitzgerald examines how busines
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however, the farmers' problems became the bankers' problems, and the insurance companies', and the USDAs. Suddenly, everyone was interested in helping the farmer become modern.21”
