Elizabeth A Ramey
Biographic Data
| ID | 9320709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Ramey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramey |
| SIGNATURE | RAMEY E A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Class, Gender, Politics, and the American Family Farm Today
This essay responds to comments by three contributors to Rethinking Marxism’s symposium on Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century, which presents a class- and gender-based critique of family farms in the midwestern United States in the early twentieth century. The essay first explores the role of women in contemporary farming, including the recent increase in the number of female farmers in the United States. Second, the …
Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century
Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S. agricultural development. It also generates surprising insights about the family farm we thought we knew, as well as the food and agricultural sy…
Farm Subsidies and Technical Change
What role did farm subsidies play in producing the current industrial agricultural system in the United States? This paper examines that question by using a model of the hunt for superprofits mediated by state intervention as applied to the origins of farm programs during the 1930s. The essay argues that farm programs intensified the industrialization of farm production begun in the 1920s. In doing so, state intervention—ostensibly on behalf of t…
Farm Subsidies and Technical Change
What role did farm subsidies play in producing the current industrial agricultural system in the United States? This paper examines that question by using a model of the hunt for superprofits mediated by state intervention as applied to the origins of farm programs during the 1930s. The essay argues that farm programs intensified the industrialization of farm production begun in the 1920s. In doing so, state intervention—ostensibly on behalf of t…
Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century
Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of U.S. agricultural development. It also generates surprising insights about the family farm we thought we knew, as well as the food and agricultural sy…
Farm Subsidies and Technical Change
What role did farm subsidies play in producing the current industrial agricultural system in the United States? This paper examines that question by using a model of the hunt for superprofits mediated by state intervention as applied to the origins of farm programs during the 1930s. The essay argues that farm programs intensified the industrialization of farm production begun in the 1920s. In doing so, state intervention—ostensibly on behalf of t…
Class, Gender, Politics, and the American Family Farm Today
This essay responds to comments by three contributors to Rethinking Marxism’s symposium on Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century, which presents a class- and gender-based critique of family farms in the midwestern United States in the early twentieth century. The essay first explores the role of women in contemporary farming, including the recent increase in the number of female farmers in the United States. Second, the …
Political Economy and Marxism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (2 works) · Family farm (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)