Assesses the attitudes of rural people towards farm electrification in the United States between 1920-1940. Hesitation of farmers to adopt electricity; impact of electricity on landscape transformation; implication of electrification for farm modernization.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37383
Notes:
California Newsreel, San Francisco, California. 2 pages., Reviews a historical documentary about a dramatic 1939 roadside protest by Missouri Bootheel sharecroppers - black and white -and the repercussions it had in politics and in their lives. 56 minutes. 1999.
Axinn, Nancy W. (author / Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1977
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05329
Notes:
Evans, Axinn, In: Gajendra Singh, J.H. de Goede, eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Development Technology : an Integrated Approach, June 21-24, 1977, Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Institute of Technology, 1977. p. 535-544.
