Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women's unexpected response to new labor-saving devices. Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted
Authors: Leslie A. Loveless, Arthur Melville Wettach, Christie Vilsack
Categories: Photography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Although Wettach was not hired as an FSA photographer, his pictures provide a fascinating parallel to the more famous work of his FSA colleagues Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Russell Lee. Yet unlike their photographs, his reveal an amazing intimacy and familiarity with his subjects, who were frequently his friends,
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman—loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The great politician, agriculturalist, economist, author, and businessman—loved and reviled, and finally now revealed. The first full biography of Henry A. Wallace, a visionary intellectual and one of this century's most important and controversial figures. Henry