Ebook: Planning democracy: agrarian intellectuals and the intended New Deal
Author: Gilbert Jess
- Tags: Agrarpolitik, Agriculture and state, Agriculture and state--United States--History--20th century, Democratization, Democratization--United States--History--20th century, Farmers--Political activity, Farmers--Political activity--United States--History--20th century, History, History--20th century, Land reform, Land reform--United States--History--20th century, Land use--Government policy, Land use--Government policy--United States--History--20th century, New Deal, New Deal 1933-1939, Political science--Public
- Series: Yale agrarian studies series
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
- City: New Haven;Conn;United States
- Language: English
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Late in the 1930s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture set up a national network of local organizations that joined farmers with public administrators, adult-educators, and social scientists. The aim was to localize and unify earlier New Deal programs concerning soil conservation, farm production control, tenure security, and other reforms, and by 1941 some 200,000 farm people were involved. Even so, conservative anti-New Dealers killed the successful program the next year. This book reexamines the era's agricultural policy and tells the neglected story of the New Deal agrarian leaders and their visionary ideas about land, democratization, and progressive social change.