| Description |
1 online resource (x, 152 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Hornworm's-Eye View of the Tobacco South; 1. Family; 2. Hands; 3. Tobacco-Raising Fools; 4. Cooperation; 5. Stabilization; 6. Untied; 7. Buyout; Conclusion: A Dead End for Tobacco Road?; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Tobacco has left an indelible mark on the American South, shaping the land and culture throughout the twentieth-century. In the last few decades, advances in technology and shifts in labor and farming policy have altered the way of life for tobacco farmers: family farms have largely been replaced by large-scale operations dependent on hired labor, much of it from other shores. However, the mechanical harvester and the H-2A guestworker did not put an end to tobacco culture but rather sent it in new directions and accelerated the change that has always been part of the farmer's life. In When T |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Tobacco -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History
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Flue-cured tobacco -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History
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Tobacco farmers -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Farms, Small -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Farms, Small -- Government policy
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Flue-cured tobacco
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Tobacco
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United States -- Piedmont Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
University Press of Florida.
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| ISBN |
9780813055084 |
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0813055083 |
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