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Every Farm a Factory - Fitzgerald, Deborah - Yale University Press
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Feb 25, 2002
256 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
16 b/w illus.
ISBN: 9780300088137
ISBN-10: 0300088132
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Cloth: $48.00 tx
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Every Farm a FactoryThe Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture
Winner of the 2003 Saloutos Award for the best book on American agricultural history given by the Agricultural History Society
During the early decades of the twentieth century, agricultural practice in America was transformed from a pre-industrial to an industrial activity. In this book Deborah Fitzgerald argues that farms became modernized in the 1920s because they adopted not only new machinery but also the financial, cultural, and ideological apparatus of industrialism.
Fitzgerald examines how bankers and emerging professionals in engineering and economics pushed for systematic, businesslike farming. She discusses how factory practices served as a template for the creation across the country of industrial or corporate farms. She looks at how farming was affected by this revolution and concludes by following several agricultural enthusiasts to the Soviet Union, where the lessons of industrial farming were studied.
Deborah Fitzgerald is associate professor in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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