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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 541–542.
Published: 01 October 2009
...Elizabeth Sanders Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South . Matthew Hild . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 2009 BookReviews GreenbackerKs,nightsofLabor,andPopulistsF: armer-LaborInsurgencyin theLate...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 October 2000
...Warren Van Tine Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor . Stanley L. Engerman . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 838 / Agricultural History provides a fascinating description of bleeding, sweating, blistering, purging, and vomiting, all early treatments...
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Published: 01 February 2023
figure 1. Hours of labor on wheat and corn farms, 1917. Note the labor demands of a corn farm are quite uniform throughout a year, whereas the wheat farm has extremely concentrated demands for human labor around the time of the harvest. Other farms surveyed in the yearbook had even higher
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Eric C. Stoykovich Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts . By Marla R. Miller . Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 2019 . 384 pp. $64.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4214-3274-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020...
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 July 2020
...David B. Danbom Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains . By Douglas Sheflin . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2019 . 426 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8032-8553-8. © 2020 Agricultural History Society 2020 500 Agricultural History and country...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 381–402.
Published: 01 July 2010
... Commission on Migratory Labor in American agriculture in 1950. In its report, the commission recommended extending a variety of social legislation and economic protections to domestic farm labor, and it further recommended slowing or ending the importation of foreign, particularly Mexican, workers...
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Jim Norris Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration . Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 Agricultural History Fall Despite its flaws, there ismuch...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 712–713.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Gordon Morris Bakken A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900–1970 . Matt Garcia . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 712 / Agricultural History A World oflts Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 703–704.
Published: 01 October 2002
...Robert Tracy McKenzie Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862–1880 . John C. Rodrigue . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 Book Reviews / 703 Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (3): 497–523.
Published: 01 July 2002
... , ed. Anne H. Mor¬ gan and H. Wayne Morgan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982 ), 93 -132 Carey
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’s essay, " The Joads at Home ," in /// Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in the United States (Boston: Little & Brown, 1942 ), 187 -207 H. Craig...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (3): 460–461.
Published: 01 July 2014
...Miriam Pawel They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era California . By Don Mitchell . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 576 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4176-7 . © the Agricultural History Society...
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 491–516.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Jennifer Bess Abstract This study examines the ideologies shaping the first cooperative venture between the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), focusing the BIA's role as a labor contractor and the Pima's efforts to exert control over the conditions and valuation...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (2): 400–402.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Romina Robles Ruvalcaba Sugarcane and Rum: The Bittersweet History of Labor and Life on the Yucatán Peninsula . By John R. Gust and Jennifer P. Matthews . Tucson : University of Arizona Press , 2020 . 192 pp., $29.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-3888-1. © 2021 Agricultural...
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Agricultural History (2021) 95 (4): 633–658.
Published: 01 October 2021
... Administration, War Relocation Authority, and Office of the Provost Marshal General to meet wartime food demands. Growers racialized farmworkers’ access to space before the war, but wartime labor programs made the Hellwig Brothers’ Farm a formal prison. This article argues that the Hellwig Brothers’ Farm reveals...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (4): 568–569.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Rebecca Anne Goetz A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia . By Richard S. Dunn . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2014 . 552 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-73536-1 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 North America...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Richard Broome Abstract Agricultural societies have precursor societies that can be misrepresented in the process of writing agricultural history. Also, the interest in environmental history on labor and nature is rarely applied to Indigenous workers. This article addresses these two issues...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 275–276.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Timothy Paul Bowman Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest . By Mario Jimenez Sifuentez . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2016 . 264 pp., $27.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7689-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 275...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (2): 248–249.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Urmi Engineer Black Labor, White Sugar: Caribbean Braceros and Their Struggle for Power in the Cuban Sugar Industry . By Philip A. Howard . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2015 . 320 pp., $47.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-5952-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (3): 444–445.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Anna Feuerstein Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism . By Ron Broglio . Albany : SUNY Press , 2017 . 178 pp., $80.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4384-6567-8 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 444 Agricultural History beyond...
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 615–617.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Andrew Patrick Hemp and the Global Economy: The Rise of Labor, Innovation, and Trade . By Nadra O. Hashim . Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2017 . 246 pp., $100.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4985-2459-9 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews Global Hemp...
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