... and the Laborer: Potato Grounds and Allotments Southern England in Nineteenth-Century JEREMY F. S. BURCHARDT Agricultural laborers were the largest, single occupational group of male workers in early nineteenth-century England, a position they were to retain for most of the century. Probably about three quarters...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... a growingpartoftheruralscenein twenty-fircsetntury Americaa,ndforusoutsidertsounderstandthemwithaccuracyandcompassion,we needtoread,consulta,ndrefertobookslikeGrowingUpAmish. JosephF.Donnermeyer Ohio StateUniversity LatinAmericaand the Caribbean Corridorsof Migration:The Odysseyof Mexican Laborers,1600-1933...

... 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...

...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...

...George C. Rable The American Peasantry: Southern Agricultural Labor and Its Legacy, 1850-1895 . Ronald E. Seavoy . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews / 119 approaches also appear, and several articles cite Michel Foucault approvingly...

...Wayne A. Grove Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 [Footnotes] 1 M. R. Cooper , W. C. Holley, H. W. Hawthorne and R. S. Washburn, Labor Requirements for Crops and Livestock , USDA, 1943 , 116 Lee Alston and Joseph Ferrie, Southern Paternalism...

...; 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...

...Deborah Fink Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics . By Kathleen Mapes . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $30.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-252-07667-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 2011 Book Reviews...

... in Louisiana: A Social History of White Farmers and Laborers during Slavery and After, 1840–1875 ( 1939 ; repr., Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1968 ). Notably lacking have been studies of cotton production in the state, although the Natchez district was the subject of Michael D. Wayne...

...Peter H. Argersinger Striking with the Ballot: Ohio Labor and the Populist Party . By Michael C. Pierce . DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press , 2010 . 300 pp., $39.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-87580-418-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Agricultural History...

...Patricia Juarez-Dappe The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil . By Thomas D. Rogers . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . 320 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8078-7167-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Deborah Cohen Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai‘i, California . By Dionicio Nodín Valdés . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . 328 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-292-72639-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...

...Elizabeth Lamoree Abstract From the Great Depression to the Great Recession of the 1970s, American agricultural policy institutionalized growers' anti-union politics based on the unique characteristics of farming. California growers argued they needed access to a flexible and cheap labor supply...

... questions unanswered. James E. Fickle University of Memphis 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. American tobacco farming, for all its problems...

...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...

...Jennifer Dorsey Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790–1860 . By Max Grivno . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2011 . 296 pp., $50.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-252-03652-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

...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...