The Farmer's Benevolent Trust

by Woeste, Victoria Saker

• ISBN13: 9780807824214
• ISBN10: 0807824216
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

Examines changes in the farming industry from 1865-1945, when industrialization radically transformed the business of agriculture. Uses the example of cooperative marketing to show how farmers used legal strategies to their own purposes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	1	(16)
PART ONE: Cooperation and Agriculture in American Culture, 1865-1910	17	(46)
1 The Farm Problem	17	(20)
2 From Agribusiness to Family Farms	37	(26)
PART TWO: The Legal Status of Cooperatives, 1865-1914	63	(48)
3 Voluntary Associations or Corporate Combinations?	63	(14)
4 A Growers' Trust	77	(16)
5 Cooperatives and Federal Law	93	(18)
PART THREE: The Benevolent Trust in Law and Policy, 1912-1928	111	(82)
6 A Ruthless Trust Monopoly	111	(27)
7 Busting the Raisin Trust?	138	(26)
8 Decline of the Benevolent Trust	164	(29)
PART FOUR: Cooperation in the Industrial Economy, 1920-1945	193	(39)
9 Associationalism and Regulation	193	(23)
10 From Administered Markets to Public Monopoly	216	(16)
Conclusion	232	(7)
Appendix. A Statistical Profile of Small Farms in California, 1850-1940	239	(14)
Notes	253	(82)
Bibliography	335	(22)
Index	357