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Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century (Paperback)
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Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century (Paperback)
Series: New Political Economy
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Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of
class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in
the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class
struggles developed during important moments in the history of
these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S. agricultural
development. It also generates surprising insights about the family
farm we thought we knew, as well as the food and agricultural
system today. Elizabeth A. Ramey theorizes the family farm as a
complex hybrid of mostly feudal and ancient class structures. This
class-based definition of the family farm yields unique insights
into three broad aspects of U.S. agricultural history. First, the
analysis highlights the crucial, yet under-recognized role of farm
women and children's unpaid labor in subsidizing the family farm.
Second, it allows for a new, class-based perspective on the roots
of the twentieth century "miracle of productivity" in U.S.
agriculture, and finally, the book demonstrates how the unique set
of contradictions and circumstances facing family farmers during
the early twentieth century, including class exploitation, was
connected to concern for their ability to serve the needs of U.S.
industrial capitalist development. The argument presented here
highlights the significant costs associated with the
intensification of exploitation in the transition to industrial
agriculture in the U.S. When viewed through the lens of class, the
hallowed family farm becomes an example of one of the most
exploitative institutions in the U.S. economy. This book is
suitable for students who study economic history, agricultural
studies, and labor economics.
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