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Plowed under : food policy protests and performance in new deal America

Obrazy
Autor
Ann Folino White
Place of publication
Bloomington
Publication date
2015
Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . IX

Introduction . . 1
1 The New Deal Vision for Agriculture • USDA Exhibits at the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair . . 24
2 Milk Dumping across America's Dairyland • The May 1933 Wisconsin Dairymen's Strike . . 64
3 Playing "Housewife" in Polonia • The 1935 Hamtramck (Michigan) Women's Meat Boycott . . 112
4 Hunger on the Highway in the Cotton South • The 1939 Missouri Sharecroppers'Demonstration . . 152
5 Staging the Agricultural Adjustment Act • The Federal Theatre Project's Triple-A Plowed Under (1936) . . 196
Epilogue . . 232

NOTES . . 241
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . 281
INDEX . . 295