American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture
by
William Conlogue
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
In 1860 farmers accounted for 60 percent of the American workforce; in 1910, 30.5 percent; by 1994, there were too few to warrant a separate census category. The changes wrought by the decline of family farming and the rise of industrial agribusiness typically have been viewed through historical,...