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The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865-1945 (Studies in Legal...
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by Victoria Saker Woeste
Sales Rank: 2103873
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Cover Type: Paperback with 392 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press September 9, 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807847313
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807847312
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
A comprehensive, historical case study of the complex problems that confronted and still confront American commercial agriculture.
Law and History Review
The study is a valuable contribution to establishing agriculture as a realistic participant in a modernising economy.
Business History
An great contribution to the study of the transformation of American agriculture during the first part of the twentieth century.
American Historical Review
[S]hunning simplistic assumptions she exposes flaws in much theory-based history of agricultureÕs place in the national market revolution.
Agricultural History
Unsettles even the most sophisticated readerÕs sentimental notions about traditional nineteenth-century farm cooperatives.
Journal of American History
Product Description
Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one imbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self-sufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's cultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of rural society long after industrialization radically transformed the business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically embraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented industry-wide monopolies and control prices, they claimed they were simply preserving their traditional place in society. In fact, the new legal form of cooperation far outpaced judicial and legislative developments at both the state and federal levels, resulting in a legal and political struggle to redefine the place of agriculture in the industrial market.
Woeste shows that farmers were adept at both borrowing such legal forms as the corporate trust for their own purposes and obtaining legislative recognition of the new cooperative style. In the process, however, the first rule of capitalism-every human being for him- or herself-trumped the traditional principle of cooperation. After 1922, state and federal law wholly endorsed cooperation's new form. Indeed, says Woeste, because of its corporate roots, this model of cooperation fit so neatly with the regulatory paradigms of the first half of the twentieth century that it became an essential policy of the modern administrative state.
Reader Reviews
Are cooperatives for farmers like labor unions? Are they like corporate monopolies? Are they another sort of entity? These questions were directly relevant for the raisin growers of California in the early 1900's and for the federal government. Saker Woeste provides detailed analysis of legislation and federal court decisions about the thorny status of the cooperatives--a debate in which the involved parties were creating their own precedents. Saker Woeste's book has a liveliness beyond what the legal topic might lead us to think. Mixed with these discussions of the law are colorful episodes that few of us outside California realized before. The book features violent night riders, tales of ethnic pressures and prejudices (especially regarding the Armenian- American community), eccentricity and idealism in the characters of the Cooperative's leaders, and the marketing story of how Sun-Maid got lots of Americans to gobble their raisins. So the book features lots of law with lots of social history, marketing, even violence. And a wealth of pictures helps the reading. Especially interesting are the early Sun-Maid advertisements. Fans of the histories of California, of agriculture, or of American law would enjoy the book. For Easterners, good comparison/contrasts are studies of Kentucky's Black Patch War--Night Riders among the tobacco farmers.
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