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The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness - Environmental History and the American South
Monica R. Gisolfi
The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness - Environmental History and the American South
Monica R. Gisolfi
Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had first underpinned the cotton-growing crop-lien system, ultimately transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 15, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780820335780 |
Publishers | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 124 |
Dimensions | 353 g |
Language | English |
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