Planning Democracy
Agrarian Intellectuals and the Intended New Deal
1st Edition
Published on 28. April 2015
368 pages
978-0-300-21339-3 (ISBN)
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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.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations Used in Text
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction
- CHAPTER 2. The Agrarian Intellectuals' Vision: The Intended New Deal as a Planning Democracy
- PART I: SOCIAL ROOTS AND EARLY FRUITS: COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHIES, ALTERNATIVE MODERNISMS, AND THE FIRST TWO AGRARIAN NEW DEALS
- CHAPTER 3. Growing Agrarian Reformers in the Midwest: A Collective Biography
- CHAPTER 4. Modernizing Eastern Urban Liberals: A Comparison with the Other Progressive Group in Agriculture
- CHAPTER 5. Struggling Toward a New Deal Land Policy: The Agrarian Action Programs and Beyond, 1933-1938
- PART II: THE FLOWERING OF DEMOCRATIC PLANNING: THE THIRD AND INTENDED NEW DEAL IN AGRICULTURE, 1938-1942
- CHAPTER 6. Reinventing Education, Research, and Planning: The Cooperative Land-Use Program
- CHAPTER 7. Continuing Education: For Citizens, Scientists, and Bureaucrats
- CHAPTER 8. Reforming Social Science: Participatory Action Research
- CHAPTER 9. Unifying Action: Results of Cooperative Land-Use Planning
- CHAPTER 10. Intended New Deal Defeated, Reassessed, and Reclaimed
- Appendix. List of Program Study and Discussion Pamphlets, 1935-1945
- List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes
- Notes
- Index
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