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Author Poppendieck, Janet, 1945-

Title Breadlines knee-deep in wheat : food assistance in the Great Depression / Janet Poppendieck.

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1986]
©1986

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  363.883 P831B    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 306 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paradox of want amid plenty -- 1: Plight of the farmer -- 2: Depression: deprivation and despair -- 3: Politics of wheat and drought -- 4: Government grain for the needy -- 5: End of the Hoover era -- 6: Promise of the New Deal -- 7: Little pigs: the genesis of relief distribution -- 8: Federal surplus relief corporation -- 9: Corporation in conflict: competition with private enterprise -- 10: Transfer to the Department of Agriculture -- 11: Accommodation to agricultural priorities -- 12: Food assistance: the legacy of New Deal policy choices -- Sources -- Notes -- Index.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [257]-296.
Subject Food relief -- United States -- History.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Agriculture and state -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0813511216: $32.00
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