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Author : Margaret MacDiarmed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer written by Margaret MacDiarmed and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wendy Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903970096
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer written by Wendy Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Hutton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Farmers? written by Caroline Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253328830
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)
Download or read book Farm and Factory written by Daniel Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-12-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century.
Author : Bradford M Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988285859
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill written by Bradford M Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill," opposites attract; for better or for worse. That is what troubles animal-phobic, robotics engineer Smith who just got married. He learns that his bride's dream is to have a farm where there are lots of animals and she can rescue ex-race horses to retrain and find them new homes. But according to a Meyers-Briggs Personality Test that they took for fun, their marriage is doomed. There is only one problem: the newlyweds took the test after the wedding. Whether Smith is chasing a cow named Pork Chop through the woods with a rope, getting locked in a tack room by the family pony, being snubbed by his wife's dog, or unsuccessfully trying to modernize their barn using the latest technology, the odds are stacked against him. It seems like everything with four legs is out to get him. Will the animals win, forcing Smith to admit defeat, or will he fight to keep his family and the farm together? Enjoy the true, warm, and frequently hilarious stories of Smith's journey along the bumpy road from his urban robotics lab to a new life on a rural Virginia farm.
Author : Wendy Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954502201
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Farmer written by Wendy Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bradford Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535147316
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill written by Bradford Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Reluctant Farmer of Whimsey Hill, opposites attract; for better or for worse. That is what troubles animal-phobic, robotics engineer Smith who just got married. He learns that his bride's dream is to have a farm where there are lots of animals and she can rescue ex-race horses to retrain and find them new homes. But according to a Meyers-Briggs Personality Test that they took for fun, their marriage is doomed. There is only one problem: the newlyweds took the test after the wedding. Whether Smith is chasing a cow named Pork Chop through the woods with a rope, getting locked in a tack room by the family pony, being snubbed by his wife's dog, or unsuccessfully trying to modernize their barn using the latest technology, the odds are stacked against him. It seems like everything with four legs is out to get him. Will the animals win, forcing Smith to admit defeat, or will he fight to keep his family and the farm together? Enjoy the true, warm, and frequently hilarious stories of Smith's journey along the bumpy road from his urban robotics lab to a new life on a rural Virginia farm.
Author : Debbie S. Dougherty
Publisher : Troubador Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848763845
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (638 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer written by Debbie S. Dougherty and published by Troubador Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few social issues more pressing than the seemingly disparate issues of social class and safe food. At this point in history, food production, work, and social class are intertwined in a way that puts our collective health at risk, and discourse about food production has become ‘classed language’, designed to show one’s place in the social stratosphere. Consequently, this shift in the function of discourse about food production has focused attention away from the three major issues facing the farming industry. First, farmers need to concern themselves with feeding the world’s hungry populations. Second, farmers need to produce healthy food. Third, farmers need to be able to feed their own families.To illustrate the relationship between social class, work, and food production the author uses her own experience as an academic and a farmer, as well as interviews with a family farmer, an organic farmer, and a family who are agribusiness farmers. The author concludes that farming needs to be more diverse in order to feed hungry people around the world, and produce high quality, healthy food for the regional population where the food is produced. Several suggestions are provided that can be used to help farmers achieve this.The writer’s gentle sense of humour and story telling approach make the book accessible to a wide range of readers. First, it would be a useful book for advanced undergraduates studying social justice, social class, or organizational communication. Second, the book will provide the material for the high level of conversation necessary in a graduate level course. Third, the book will be valuable to intelligent people concerned about both social justice and healthy food production.
Author : Paul Katzaroff
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546204016
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Traveler written by Paul Katzaroff and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a must-read for World War II buffs! The narrative was written from the perspective of an Eastern European youngster growing up on the losing side of the conflict during the war years. This is a saga that spans Paris in the 1930s to Sofia, Bulgarias capital, in May 1940, just prior to the victorious Nazi armies that paraded in Paris on June 14, 1940. At the time of their arrival in Sofia, Bulgaria remained neutral. On March 1, 1941, Bulgaria joined the Axis and later on declared war on the USA and Great Britain. That action invited the systematic bombing of Sofia, resulting in the family having to relocate to a safer location. The chosen location was in what used to be Northern Greece, a city called Serres, where the family lived until the fall of 1944 when the German armies were forced to retreat, which meant that the family had to move back to Sofia. At the end of the war, the family decided to leave Bulgaria as soon as possible. In spite of many obstacles, the family was able to reunite in Prague and, from there, spent some time in a couple of displaced persons (DP) camps in Rome and Naples. Eventually, they sailed from Naples to Buenos Aires and five years later, flew to New York City, the final desired destination.
Author : Debra A. Reid
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603441230
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Seeking Inalienable Rights written by Debra A. Reid and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans’ quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book: "Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas"-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University "Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886–1896"-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington "Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s–1910s" -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University "Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I"-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair "Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio"-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word "Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954–1968"-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor "Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston"-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University "Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas"-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.
Author : Carole Nagengast
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000309606
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs written by Carole Nagengast and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREDOMINANTLY A RURAL NATION, Poland is most often depicted with urban scenes: steelworkers, trade unions, Communist party members, and Solidarity meetings. In contrast to this industrial vision, Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs views historical and recent changes and their agrarian consequences.During her many years in the Polish countryside, Dr. Nagengast has observed,studied, and worked side by side with farmers and other members of the agrarian class. Here she provides a first-hand perspective on the monumental failures of the Polish version of socialism, which were largely due to decisions that led the nation-state down a distinctly capitalist path to agrarian development. On the basis of her extensive research, Nagengast makes chilling forecasts about the impact of the accelerating development of capitalism on the culture, politics, and economy of Poland.This book will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars interested in Eastern European and socialist studies.
Author : Beth Hoffman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831603
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Bet the Farm written by Beth Hoffman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eloquent and detailed...precise and well-thought-out...Read her book — and listen.” — Jane Smiley, The Washington Post. Beth Hoffman was living the good life: she had a successful career as a journalist and professor, a comfortable home in San Francisco, and plenty of close friends and family. Yet in her late 40s, she and her husband decided to leave the big city and move to his family ranch in Iowa—all for the dream of becoming a farmer, to put into practice everything she had learned over decades of reporting on food and agriculture. There was just one problem: money. Half of America's two million farms made less than $300 in 2019. Between rising land costs, ever-more expensive equipment, the growing uncertainty of the climate, and few options for health care, farming today is a risky business. For many, simply staying afloat is a constant struggle. Bet the Farm chronicles this struggle through Beth’s eyes as a beginning farmer. She must contend with her father-in-law, who is reluctant to hand over control of the land. Growing oats is good for the environment but ends up being very bad for the wallet. And finding somewhere, in the midst of COVID-19, to slaughter grass-finished beef is a nightmare. The couple also must balance the books, hoping that farming isn’t a romantic fantasy that takes every cent of their savings. Even with a decent nest egg and access to land, making ends meet at times seems impossible. And Beth knows full well that she is among the privileged. If Beth can’t make it, how can farmers who confront racism, lack access to land, or don’t have other jobs to fall back on? Bet the Farm is a first-hand account of the perils of farming today and a personal exploration of more just and sustainable ways of producing food.
Author : John S. Skinner, Editor.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The American Farmer written by John S. Skinner, Editor. and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496235630
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900 written by R. Douglas Hurt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region’s Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure—and still others suffered social and racial prejudice. In this broad and authoritative survey of midwestern agriculture from the War of 1812 to the turn of the twentieth century, R. Douglas Hurt contends that this region proved to be the country’s garden spot and the nation’s heart of agricultural production. During these eighty-five years the region transformed from a sparsely settled area to the home of large industrial and commercial cities, including Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Detroit. Still, it remained primarily an agricultural region that promised a better life for many of the people who acquired land, raised crops and livestock, provided for their families, adopted new technologies, and sought political reform to benefit their economic interests. Focusing on the history of midwestern agriculture during wartime, utopian isolation, and colonization as well as political unrest, Hurt contextualizes myriad facets of the region’s past to show how agricultural life developed for midwestern farmers—and to reflect on what that meant for the region and nation.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (963 download)
Download or read book Southern Cultivator and Farming written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glyn Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780707402482
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer written by Glyn Williams and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Vernon Scott
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Reluctant Farmer written by Roy Vernon Scott and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Scott here surveys the rise of agricultural extension education in the United States from the 1780s to 1914. He examines in detail attempts by the farm press, local agricultural clubs and societies, county fairs, and colleges to improve farming devices. Scott shows that these otherwise useful agencies and institutions all found it nearly impossible to convenice farmers of the value of science. There was a stigma attached to "book farming," and the abundance of cheap and fertile land strengthened stubborn convictions that new techniques were unnecessary and unwise. It remained for Seaman Knapp and several others to point the way through demonstration, to show farmers ways to more productive agriculture. The enactment of the Smith-Lever Act in 1914 provided legislative founding for the expansion of the demonstration method throughout the United States.
