Author : Daniel Nelson
Release : 1995-12-22
Genre : Business & Economics
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Farm and Factory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Farm and Factory write by Daniel Nelson. This book was released on 1995-12-22. Farm and Factory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century.