The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 369 sider
Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self-sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural

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The Farm Problem
17
From Agribusiness to Family Farms
36
Voluntary Associations or Corporate Combinations?
61
A Growers Trust
73
Cooperatives and Federal Law
89
A Ruthless Trust Monopoly
107
Busting the Raisin Trust?
134
Decline of the Benevolent Trust
160
Associationalism and Regulation
189
From Administered Markets to Public Monopoly
210
Conclusion
226
A Statistical Profile of Small Farms in California 18501940
231
Notes
245
Bibliography
325
Index
347
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Victoria Saker Woeste is a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.

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