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1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Introduction: The Nature of Crisis in the US Agrarian System -- The Pandemic Did Not Cause the Crisis, It Just Made Things Worse -- What Is (And Is Not) Agrarian Crisis -- Plan for the Book -- Notes -- 1 The Crisis Tendency in Land Policy -- Keeping Land in the Family, It's Complicated -- State Authority and the (Ideal) Nature of Land Transfer -- Treaties and Racism in Constituting Property Relations in the US Agrarian System |
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The New Deal and Mixed Results in Addressing Enduring Problems in State Authority -- Problems Concerning Land Transfer and Crisis During the Neoliberal Period -- Conclusion -- Evolving Property Relations Amid Ongoing Legitimacy Concerns -- Notes -- 2 The Crisis Tendency in Labor Policy -- There's More Than Cows in Dairyland -- Labor and Race in Crisis Theory -- The (Non-)Constitution of Agricultural Labor and the Persistent Problem of Control -- Slavery and the Origins of Permanently Precarious Labor in US Agriculture |
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Partisan Stalemate and Neoliberal Reforms Turn Problems Into Crisis Tendencies -- Conclusion: From Slaves to Undocumented Workers -- Notes -- 3 The Crisis Tendency in Market Policy -- Things Change as They Stay the Same -- Habermas On Agricultural Commodity Markets and Their Contradictory Tendencies -- Keeping Contradictory Tendencies at Bay as the Agribusiness Ideal Gains Ground -- Neoliberal Reforms and the Aggravation of Crisis Tendencies in Markets -- Conclusion: Contradictory Tendencies, New and Old -- Notes -- 4 The Crisis Tendency in Environmental Policy -- Watching the Tornadoes Go By |
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Environmental Issues -- Including Climate Change -- in Habermas' Theory of Crisis -- Consensus Building Practices in Environmental Policy Formation -- Neoliberalism and Dissensus in the Failure to Confront Climate Change -- Conclusion: California and the Crisis of Reproduction -- Notes -- Conclusion: Pathways for Reform -- Hope for the Future Or More of the Same? -- Contributions to Studies of Crisis and Agrarian Politics -- Pathways for Reform -- Past and Future -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Agriculture and state-History-United States-21st century
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000868609 |
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1000868605 |
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