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Every Farm a Factory

Deborah Fitzgerald

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Technologie & Bouwkunde
  • ISBN: 9780300111286
The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:26 februari 2010
Aantal pagina's:256
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Deborah Fitzgerald
Hoofdauteur:Deborah Fitzgerald
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Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:152 mm
Product lengte:229 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:146 mm
Verpakking hoogte:19 mm
Verpakking lengte:222 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:386 g
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Product breedte:152 mm
Product lengte:229 mm
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:146 mm
Verpakking hoogte:19 mm
Verpakking lengte:222 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:386 g

Samenvatting

During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized 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 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.