Isbn: 9780415834728 - class, gender, and the american family farm in the 20th century (19 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xiv + 147 pages, NOT ex-library. Clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Gentle external shelfwear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Elizabeth Ramey's study challenges familiar narratives surrounding the American family farm by reinterpreting its social and economic structure through a Marxian lens. While the family farm has often been idealized as a space of independence, hard work, and economic self-sufficiency, Ramey situates it instead as a hybrid class form - one that combines elements of ancient, feudal, and capitalist relations. She argues that the family farm's productivity and longevity have depended not simply on market efficiency or mechanization, but crucially on household-based exploitation, especially the unpaid labor of women and children. Drawing directly on Marx's theory of surplus labor, Ramey contends that the family farm cannot be fully understood through conventional class analysis. Rather, its internal structure reflects a distinctive configuration in which surplus is extracted within the household itself. Women's and children's labor, though often excluded from formal economic accounting, played a central role in subsidizing market production and enabling small farms to survive despite increasing commercial pressures and mechanized competition. The book is attentive to the ways gender shaped this hybrid class form. Ramey demonstrates that the intensification of agricultural production in the 20th century - commonly framed as a neutral process of technological advancement - was in fact underwritten by intensifying gendered exploitation. As state and market incentives pushed small farmers to expand production and adopt new technologies, intra-household labor demands increased, particularly for wives and daughters whose contributions remained unpaid and largely invisible. This structure, Ramey argues, helped to reproduce capitalist relations in rural America by allowing small-scale producers to function within market constraints while masking the social cost of their survival. Ramey's analysis draws from historical sources, census data, and prior feminist and Marxist scholarship. The book contributes to debates on agrarian transformation, feminist political economy, and the role of household labor in capitalist systems. -- Contents: 1 Introduction [Manor economy: a class analytical framework of the family farm; Class struggle on the farm: constructing the 'farm woman problem'; Conclusion and plan of work] 2 The family farm hybrid, feudal-ancient subsidies, and the farm woman problem [Ancient corn belt farming system and feudal-ancient subsidies; 'Unemployed' and unpaid: what did farm wives do?; Family farm feudalism; Children as serfs; Conditions of existence for the family farm hybrid; Feudal-ancient subsidies: making do and helping out; Farm woman problem revisited; Conclusion] 3 Technical change, ancient competition, and the hunt for super profits [Industrial agriculture; From the 'farm woman problem' to the 'farm problem'; Tractor dilemma: through the lens of class; State policy and the technology treadmill; Rise of agribusiness; Surviving the treadmill: making do, helping out, and the family farm hybrid; Conclusion] 4 Conclusion; Appendix A The hunt for super profits; Appendix B The story of hybrid corn; Index -- Elizabeth A. Ramey is Assistant Professor of Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA.…

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Condizione: New. Series: New Political Economy. Num Pages: 162 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 3 black & white halftones, 11 bla. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSC; JFSJ; KCF; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362. . 2014. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . …

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Condizione: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Integrating a focus on gender with Marx's surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S. agricultural development, highlighting the significant costs associated with the intensification of exploitation in the transition to industrial agriculture.…

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Condizione: New. Series: New Political Economy. Num Pages: 162 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 3 black & white halftones, 11 bla. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; JFSC; JFSJ; KCF; KCZ; KNAC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362. . 2014. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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