Review of two books: Fred Magdoff etal, Hungry for profit: the agribusiness threat to farmers; and Eric Ross, The Malthus Factor: population, poverty, and politics in capitalist development.
Reports on author's findings that "contract farming does not have the effect of deskilling predicted based on the factory assembly line, because the environmental specificity of agriculture requires more independent decision making than does factory work."
Johnston, Robert D. (author / Department of History, Yale University)
Format:
Book review
Publication Date:
1999-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23352
Notes:
Via H-Net Review in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Michigan State University. 5 pages., Review of Deborah Fink, Cutting into the meatpacking line: workers and change in the rural Midwest.
