| Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities Contributor(s): Thu, Kendall M. (Editor), Durrenberger, E. Paul (Editor) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0791438872 ISBN-13: 9780791438879 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - General |
| Dewey: 306.349 |
| LCCN: 97-35434 |
| Series: Suny Anthropological Studies of Contemporary Issues |
| Physical Information: (1.04 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization, particularly within the swine production industry, for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States. Contributors come from widely divergent backgrounds including a former U.S. senator, farmers, a veterinarian, a medical psychologist, an agricultural economist, a biological ecologist, a farm organization president, and anthropologists. Set within the theoretical framework of Walter Goldschmidt's research on the community consequences of industrialized food production, these contributions show that the increasing divergence of ownership has real human costs that continue to be ignored by economic developers and policymakers. |