Plowed Under : Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America
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Plowed Under : Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America
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- Plowed Under : Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America
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- Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America
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- Agricultural Economics
- Agricultural Economics
- Agriculture and state
- Agriculture and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | General
- Business & Economics
- Business & Economics
- Electronic books
- 1900-1999
- History
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- New Deal, 1933-1939
- Protest movements
- Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Language
- eng
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- During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and sows were slaughtered and discarded. Many Americans saw the government action as a senseless waste of food that left the hungry to starve, initiating public protests against food and farm policy. White approaches these events as performances where competing notions of morality and citizenship were acted out, often along lines marked by class, race, and gender. The actions range from the "Milk War" that pitted National Guardsmen against dairymen, who were dumping milk, to the meat boycott staged by Polish-American women in Michigan, and from the black sharecroppers' protest to restore agricultural jobs in Missouri to the protest theater of the Federal Theater Project. White provides a riveting account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competing rights to food and the moral contradictions of capitalist society in times of economic crisis
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