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Shake-Out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s

Shake-Out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s

Paperback

Business GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0813156238
ISBN13: 9780813156231
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kentucky
Published: Jul 15 2014
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The farm crisis of the 1980s quickly became a media event, with scenes depicted starkly in black and white on color TV. The embattled farmers, accompanied by their advocates, stood holding off bankers and sheriffs wielding foreclosure notices. In this new book, using findings from interviews and participant observation, agricultural historian Mark Friedberger peels away the emotion and rhetoric of the save the family farm movement to provide a realistic picture of what happened in on important farm state.

Shake-out: Iowa Farm Families in the 1980s depicts the farm crisis of the 1980s in all its complexity, providing a useful corrective to popular accounts. Friedberger's approach and his focus on individuals present the problem in America's heartland at a truly grass roots level. Those seeking a better understanding of American agriculture in the 1980s and of rural life generally will find it invaluable.

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