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Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer–Labor Insurgency in the Late–Nineteenth–Century South
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Agricultural History (2009) 83 (4): 541–542.
Published: 01 October 2009
...,umberb, ricka,nd quarryworkersintheKOL, and theyjoinedtheFarmersA' lliance(bothwhiteand colored)inAlliance Labor conferencesG, reenbackcampaigns,and the populistJeffersonian DemocraticPartyoftheearly1890sT. heJeffersoniawnsouldhavebeenvictoriousinthe1892gubernatoriaellectionhad theDemocratsnotcommitted...
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Hours of labor on wheat and corn farms, 1917. Note the labor demands of a c...
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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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Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (4): 838–840.
Published: 01 October 2000
..., but a fuller treatment would be useful for the general reader. Nonetheless, Moss has provided a fascinating glimpse of the world of early medical practitioners and given us an invaluable resource. Melissa Walker Converse College Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor. Edited by Stanley L. Engerman...
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Race, Paternalism, and “California Pastoral”: Rural Rehabilitation and Mexican Labor in Greater Los Angeles
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (1): 1–35.
Published: 01 January 2007
... commitment to reform and rehabilitation through planning and paternalism, and the employer’s drive to segregate and racialize labor under a pastoral ideal. Yet the village schemes foundered; weakened by employers’ lack of commitment to worker welfare and fears of rural sedition, by the inconsistencies...
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“Nazis Hoe Cotton”: Planters, POWS, and the Future of Farm Labor in the Deep South
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 471–492.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Jason Morgan Ward Abstract During World War II, the POW labor program provided cotton planters in the lower Mississippi Valley with a temporary yet timely solution to an increasingly mobile local labor supply. While war prisoners worked in a variety of crops and non-agricultural industries, one...
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Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... An incredibly violent and expensive utopian imperialist project that ends in failure is hardly a relic of the sixteenth century. John M. Collins Eastern Washington University Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts. By Marla R. Miller. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins...
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Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 July 2020
... is an exceptional study that succeeds in drawing out the far-reaching social and historical implications of a single crisis in rural China s tumultuous twentieth-century experience. Matthew Noellert University of Iowa Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains. By Douglas Sheflin. Lincoln...
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"Fifty–Four Days Work of Two Negroes": Enslaved Labor in Colonial Somerset County, Maryland
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (4): 466–492.
Published: 01 October 2004
...J. Elliott Russo Abstract The uses of enslaved labor outside the context of staple crop production become evident through an examination of colonial Somerset County, the southernmost Maryland county on the Chesapeake Bay’s Eastern Shore. By the early eighteenth century, conditions in Somerset...
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The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers’ Lives, Labor, and Advocacy
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (3): 365–366.
Published: 01 July 2004
...Anne B. W. Effland The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers’ Lives, Labor, and Advocacy . Charles D. Thompson, Jr. and Melinda F. Wiggins . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 365 The Human Cost ofFood: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy. Ed? ited...
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Agrarianism and Child Labor Policy for Agriculture
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 281–297.
Published: 01 July 2005
... about childhood and education, Progressive reformers suggested that some farm work was unhealthy for children. To separate the agricultural labor that concerned them from the agrarian consensus, they developed a critique centered on education and industrialized agriculture. Restricting children’s labor...
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Growing up Growing Sugar: Local Teenage Labor in the Sugar Beet Fields, 1958–1974
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Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 298–320.
Published: 01 July 2005
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, Jr. The Great Western Sugarlands: The History...
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Diversification or De-Agrarianization? Income Diversification, Labor, and Processes of Agrarian Change in Southern and Northern Malawi, Mid–1930s to Mid–1950s
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 164–192.
Published: 01 April 2008
...-labor ratios, quality of soils, and structure of market engagement. Exploring the different paths of agrarian change in these two districts demonstrates that they were dependent on the structure of market engagement and its effects on the supply and flexibility of labor. African agricultural history...
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"Be Receptive to the Good Earth": Health, Nature, and Labor in Countercultural Back–to–the–Land Settlements
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 279–308.
Published: 01 July 2008
... in outdoor leisure, the countercultural back-to-the-land movement turned to a markedly American practice of pastoral mythmaking that held rural life and labor as counter to the urban-industrial condition. Counterculturalists relied specifically on notions of simple work in rural collective endeavors...
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Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1889–1960
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (4): 540–541.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Stephanie Lewthwaite Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor and Leisure in a California Town, 1889-1960 . José M. Alamillo . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Fall While this volume has much strength, there are a few discussions...
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Taking The Fair Deal to the Fields: Truman’s Commission on Migratory Labor, Public Law 78, and the Bracero Program, 1950–1952
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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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Florida’s Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 554–555.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to theNew Immigration. Edited by Robert Cassanello and Melanie Shell-Weiss. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.286 pp., $69.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-3283-2. . This is the initial volume in the newWorking...
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When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (4): 621–622.
Published: 01 October 2015
...Drew Swanson When Tobacco Was King: Families, Farm Labor, and Federal Policy in the Piedmont . By Evan P. Bennett . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . 162 pp., $74.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8130-6014-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...
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A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (2): 329–331.
Published: 01 April 2015
...David Ryden A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic . By Simon P. Newman . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2013 . 336 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4519-6 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...
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Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (3): 458–459.
Published: 01 July 2015
...C. Clare Hinrichs Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic . By Margaret Gray . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2013 . 229 pp., paperback, ISBN 978-0-520-27667-3 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Summer...
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Under the Trees: The Georgia Peach and the Quest for Labor in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2011) 85 (1): 72–101.
Published: 01 January 2011
...; unlike other proposed alternatives to cotton, peaches flourished in many places. But the history of the “labor problem” in the Georgia peach belt makes it clear that peach production depended on the cotton economy. Peaches required large amounts of labor only at harvest time, which came during a lull...
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