Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed Book

1	Introduction	1
I	North American Agriculture in the World System: Overview and Case Studies
2	The Social Economy of Development: The State of/and the Imperial Valley	25
3	From the National Policy to Continentalism and Globalization: The Shifting Context of Canadian Agricultural Policies	47
4	The Contested Terrain of Swine Production: Deregulation and Reregulation of Corporate Farming Laws in Missouri	75
5	The Contingent Creation of Rural Interest Groups	96
II	Foundations of Twentieth Century U.S. Policy
6	The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda-Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press	113
7	Low Modernism and the Agrarian New Deal: A Different Kind of State	129
8	The New Deal Farm Programs: Looking for Reconstruction in American Agriculture	147
9	The U.S. Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s	160
III	The Political Implications of Daily Life
10	The Entrepreneurial Self: Identity and Morality in a Midwestern Farming Community	175
11	Considerably More Than Vegetables, a Lot Less Than Community: The Dilemma of Community Supported Agriculture	192
IV	The Politics of the Environment
12	Canadian Agricultural Policy: Liberal, Global, and Sustainable	209
13	Constructing Genetic Engineering in the Food and Fiber System as a Problem: Urban Social Movement Organizations as Players in Agricultural Discourse	229
14	Eating in the Gardens of Gaia: Envisioning Polycultural Communities	252
	Notes	275
	Bibliography	287
	List of Contributors	325
	Index	329
	Acknowledgments	339