Book Description
This publication is concerned with the labor problems of farms and farm families in terms of the reduced labor supply due to the second World War.
Author : Robert Carl Tetro
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN :
This publication is concerned with the labor problems of farms and farm families in terms of the reduced labor supply due to the second World War.
Author : United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Frieda Wunderlich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1400877423
This comprehensive study of labor in German agriculture integrates historical, sociological, and legal facts and relates them to the general political and cultural currents in Germany from 1810 to the Nazi defeat in 1945. Originally published in 1961. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Stephanie A. Carpenter
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780875807966
Rosie the Riveter is an icon for women's industrial contribution to World War II, but history has largely overlooked the three million women who served on America's agricultural front. The Women's Land Army sent volunteers to farms, canneries, and dairies across the country, accounting for the majority of wartime agricultural labor. On the Farm Front tells for the first time the remarkable story of these women who worked to ensure both "Freedom from Want" at home and victory abroad. Formed in 1943 as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Program, the WLA placed its workers in areas where American farmers urgently needed assistance. Many farmers in even the most desperate areas, however, initially opposed women working their land. Rural administrators in the Midwest and the South yielded to necessity and employed several hundred thousand women as farm laborers by the end of the war, but those in the Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains remained hesitant, suffering serious agricultural and financial losses as a consequence. Lynne Carpenter reveals for the first time how the WLA revolutionized the national view of farming. By accepting all available women as agricultural workers, farmers abandoned traditional labor and stereotypical social practices. When the WLA officially disbanded in 1945, many of its women chose to remain in their agricultural jobs rather than return to a full-time home life or prewar employment. On the Farm Front illuminates the Women's Land Army's unique contribution to prosperity and victory, showing how this landmark organization changed the role of women in American society.
Author : Erasmo Gamboa
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780295978499
A study of the bracero program during World War II. It describes the labor history of Mexican and Chicano workers in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. It analyses the ways in which Braceros were active agents of their own lives. It also describes the living and working conditions in migrant farm camps.
Author : Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0700635181
As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—not only memoirs and diaries but also census data—to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post–Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children’s work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play—much of it homemade—to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Author : Robert C. Tetro
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1942
Category :
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Author : Wayne David Rasmussen
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : Wayne David Rasmussen
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Agricultural laborers
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Author : United States. Farm Security Administration
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 1942
Category :
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