Author: Hugh Stevens Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
This publication is concerned with the labor problems of farms and farm families in terms of the reduced labor supply due to the second World War.
Wartime Farming on the Northern Great Plains
Author: Hugh Stevens Bell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
This publication is concerned with the labor problems of farms and farm families in terms of the reduced labor supply due to the second World War.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
This publication is concerned with the labor problems of farms and farm families in terms of the reduced labor supply due to the second World War.
Wartime Farming on the Northern Great Plains
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
On the Farm Front
Author: Stephanie A. Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875803142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Rosie the Riveter is an icon for women's industrial contribution to World War II, but history has largely overlooked the three million women who served on America's agricultural front. The Women's Land Army sent volunteers to farms, canneries, and dairies across the country, accounting for the majority of wartime agricultural labor. On the Farm Front tells for the first time the remarkable story of these women who worked to ensure both "Freedom from Want" at home and victory abroad. Formed in 1943 as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Program, the WLA placed its workers in areas where American farmers urgently needed assistance. Many farmers in even the most desperate areas, however, initially opposed women working their land. Rural administrators in the Midwest and the South yielded to necessity and employed several hundred thousand women as farm laborers by the end of the war, but those in the Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains remained hesitant, suffering serious agricultural and financial losses as a consequence. Carpenter reveals for the first time how the WLA revolutionized the national view of farming. By accepting all available women as agricultural workers, farmers abandoned traditional labor and stereotypical social practices. When the WLA officially disbanded in 1945, many of its women chose to remain in their agricultural jobs rather than return to a full-time home life or prewar employment. On the Farm Front illuminates the Women's Land Army's unique contribution to prosperity and victory, showing how this landmark organization changed the role of women in American society.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875803142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Rosie the Riveter is an icon for women's industrial contribution to World War II, but history has largely overlooked the three million women who served on America's agricultural front. The Women's Land Army sent volunteers to farms, canneries, and dairies across the country, accounting for the majority of wartime agricultural labor. On the Farm Front tells for the first time the remarkable story of these women who worked to ensure both "Freedom from Want" at home and victory abroad. Formed in 1943 as part of the Emergency Farm Labor Program, the WLA placed its workers in areas where American farmers urgently needed assistance. Many farmers in even the most desperate areas, however, initially opposed women working their land. Rural administrators in the Midwest and the South yielded to necessity and employed several hundred thousand women as farm laborers by the end of the war, but those in the Great Plains and eastern Rocky Mountains remained hesitant, suffering serious agricultural and financial losses as a consequence. Carpenter reveals for the first time how the WLA revolutionized the national view of farming. By accepting all available women as agricultural workers, farmers abandoned traditional labor and stereotypical social practices. When the WLA officially disbanded in 1945, many of its women chose to remain in their agricultural jobs rather than return to a full-time home life or prewar employment. On the Farm Front illuminates the Women's Land Army's unique contribution to prosperity and victory, showing how this landmark organization changed the role of women in American society.
Wartime Farming on the Northern Great Plains
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm management
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm management
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Ellen Kay Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Nature at War
Author: Thomas Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419763
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419763
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--
Monthly List of Publications and Motion Pictures
Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Standardization and Inspection of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Author: William Henry White
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
This publication gives information on collecting, preserving, handling, mounting, and labeling insect specimens, on subsequent care of collections, and on recognition of the general insect groups or orders. It has been prepared in response to numerous requests from farmers, students, servicemen, and other individuals and groups interested in obtaining first-hand knowledge of insects by collecting them.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
This publication gives information on collecting, preserving, handling, mounting, and labeling insect specimens, on subsequent care of collections, and on recognition of the general insect groups or orders. It has been prepared in response to numerous requests from farmers, students, servicemen, and other individuals and groups interested in obtaining first-hand knowledge of insects by collecting them.
The Great Plains During World War II
Author: R. Douglas Hurt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803224095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
An in-depth examination of the effects of World War II on the Great Plains states brings to life the voices and experiences of the residents of the region in recounting the stories of the daily concerns of ordinary people.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803224095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
An in-depth examination of the effects of World War II on the Great Plains states brings to life the voices and experiences of the residents of the region in recounting the stories of the daily concerns of ordinary people.
Selected United States Government Publications
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1340
Book Description