...Derek Oden Abstract This paper examines both the farm accident problem and the institutional response it engendered. Farm safety leaders fashioned a largely educational movement to address farm families’ technologically complex environments, since farming’s entrepreneurial nature required...

... a monolithic image of white, detached owners of large landholdings running industrial farms, while people of color toiled without power, safety, or a livable wage. McWilliams was not necessarily incorrect, but the reality is far more complex. The following article seeks to recover some of the stories obscured...

... the political history of food regulation from the turn of the twentieth century to today. She examines the path to the first federal food safety law, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, and how subsequent amendments and refinements have done little to make the foods Americans eat safer. She argues...

... AndrewJackson Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. By Marion Nestle. Berkeley: University of California Press,2004. 366 pp., $15.95, paperback, ISBN 0-520-24223-8. MarionNestle's primeron food safety is a welcome contributionto popular and scholarlyliteratures,againstthe politicalbackdropof...

... Agricultural History of the nutrition portion of the bill providing low-income food assistance benefiting urban communities. Left unexplored in the book are issues of how the spatial, gendered, and racial politics of food stamps often derided by some politicians as a safety-net program for single women...

.... The debate over the tool was more than a new episode in the historic tug-of-war between masses of workers and their few but powerful employers. It began with the CRLA an entity not affiliated with any union and it moved through the California Industrial Safety Board, the California Supreme Court, and through...

... national community--speaks to the tenacity of ethnic culture in the countryside and its ability to support resistance to larger hegemonic forces. Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Notes 1 Joseph Bussen to Commission of Public Safety, January 2, 1918, Main Files, Minnesota Public...

.... Today, only about three thousand people die from foodborne illness each year, and it does not even rank in the top fifty causes of death in the United States. By comparison, about nine thousand people died of foodborne illness in 1997. Safety has become better despite the regulatory structure being...

... of the corporate control of meat production states were instrumental in promoting greater meat consumption (82). The state regulated the slaughter of animals, the working conditions within the industry, and the safety of meat. The monopoly of a small number of corporations controlling meat production has changed...

..., the working conditions within the industry, and the safety of meat. The monopoly of a small number of corporations controlling meat production has changed the health and safety of the slaughtered animals, the human workers, and those who consume the meat (which includes both humans and their various animal...

... overview of the influence of the agribusiness/food sector, Hungryfor Profit gathers the insights of nineteen contributors whose essays detail the challenges farmers face as they attempt to remain competitive. Issues of food safety, agricultural biotechnology, trade institutions, and regulatory agreements...

.... MarionNestle's primeron food safety is a welcome contributionto popular and scholarlyliteratures,againstthe politicalbackdropof outgoing US Secretary of Health and Human ServicesTommyThompsondeclaringpubliclyin December 2004:"Forthe life of me, I cannot understandwhy the terrorists have not attackedour food...

... above all else, including the safety and well-being of the workers (237). Cheap s central notion, Simon writes, was that the combination of less pay, less regulation, and less attention to the economic and racial inequities of the past was the best way to solve the nation s most pressing problems...

... to deal with the huge influx of runaway teenagers. The final case study deals with baby boomers as parents expressing concern over food safety for children in the wake of ubiquitous pesticide use. Like the concerns over radiation testing, concerns about pesticides shifted from local to national...

...). Despite [irradiation s] safety . . . consumers have the feeling that it is dangerous. Many do not want their food irradiated, although it greatly improves shelf life with hardly any loss of quality (363). Fresco s argument for industrial agriculture is primarily grounded in the idea of efficiency. She...

... scientific rationale for their adoption. It is a fascinating and welltold story, one that has dramatic implications for environmental and human health as people develop resistance to antibiotics they consume when eating meat. The latter third of the book looks at the relationship between worker safety...

... of the nutrition portion of the bill providing low-income food assistance benefiting urban communities. Left unexplored in the book are issues of how the spatial, gendered, and racial politics of food stamps often derided by some politicians as a safety-net program for single women of color in urban communities...

... only limited success for a variety of reasons. Zionists and non-Zionists agreed, however, that the resettlement of East European Jews would function as a safety valve. Colonization would decrease urban population and ease social tensions. Jewish farmers would improve society by leaving their world...

...–1950 .” Agricultural History Review 52 , no. 2 ( 2004 ): 183 – 206 . Nickels Jessica . “ A Look Back: Extension Provides Food for Families .” Enid (OK) News and Eagle , April 5 , 2014 . Oden Derek S. “ Harvest of Hazards: The Farm Safety Movement, 1940–1945 .” PhD diss...

... also New York State Board of Health, Report on the Methods and Apparatus for Testing Inflammable Oils (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1882). The best modern discussion of these early safety efforts is James McSwain, Petroleum & Public Safety (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press...