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Author Bennett, Evan P.

Title When tobacco was king : families, farm labor, and Federal policy in the Piedmont / Evan P. Bennett.

Publication Info. Gainesville/Tallahassee/Tampa/Boca Raton/Pensacola/Orlando/Miami/Jacksonville/Ft. Myers/Sarasota : University Press of Florida, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 152 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
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Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Hornworm's-Eye View of the Tobacco South; 1. Family; 2. Hands; 3. Tobacco-Raising Fools; 4. Cooperation; 5. Stabilization; 6. Untied; 7. Buyout; Conclusion: A Dead End for Tobacco Road?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary Tobacco has left an indelible mark on the American South, shaping the land and culture throughout the twentieth-century. In the last few decades, advances in technology and shifts in labor and farming policy have altered the way of life for tobacco farmers: family farms have largely been replaced by large-scale operations dependent on hired labor, much of it from other shores. However, the mechanical harvester and the H-2A guestworker did not put an end to tobacco culture but rather sent it in new directions and accelerated the change that has always been part of the farmer's life. In When T.
Subject Tobacco -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History.
Flue-cured tobacco -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- History.
Tobacco farmers -- Piedmont (U.S. : Region) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Farms, Small -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century.
Cigar industry.
Tobacco farmers.
Tobacco industry.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Added Author University Press of Florida.
Added Title Families, farm labor, and Federal policy in the Piedmont
Other Form: Print version: Bennett, Evan P. When tobacco was king 9780813060149 (OCoLC)891947864
ISBN 9780813055084 (electronic bk.)
0813055083 (electronic bk.)
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