Eroding a Way of Life
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-948-8 (ISBN)
The establishment of a Western Canadian economy dominated by family farming was part of the government’s post-Confederation nation building and industrial development strategy. During this era, Western family farms were established and promoted to serve as a market for Canadian industrial goods and a source of export cash crops, which both played essential roles in the national economy.
In Eroding a Way of Life, Murray Knuttila shows how decades of neoliberal policies, state austerity, deregulation, and privatization have fragmented agrarian communities across Western Canada, a process hastened by the advent of the capitalization of machinery and high-input industrial farming. As a result, earning a living on the family farm has become increasingly impossible. As farmers sell off their land to larger producers, rural communities are watching their railroads, schools, churches, post offices, and hospitals close, and many villages and small towns are being reduced to plaques on the highway.
Analyzing the history of prairie agriculture through the lenses of class, federal policies, and global capitalism, Knuttila describes the physical, social, and political reordering of the countryside and the resulting human costs paid by farmers, labourers, and families.
Murray Knuttila is Professor Emeritus at the University of Regina and Brock University. He is the author of several books, including That Man Partridge and Paying for Masculinity. He resides in Regina, Saskatchewan.
CONTENTS
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables ixPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Confederation to Depression: Western Canada Enters theGlobal Economy, 1867–1930
Chapter 2: Phase 1—Activist Government: Promoting the National Policyand Family Farming in the West, 1867–1930
Chapter 3: Phase 2—Crisis and Stability: Keynesian Fordism andMaintaining the Family Farm, 1930–1969
Chapter 4: Phase 3—Unleashing the Market: Neoliberalism andFamily Farming, 1970–2014
Chapter 5: A Tenuous Location in the Food Chain
Chapter 6: Meanwhile, Back on the Farm
Epilogue: Unanswered Questions
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Regina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 1400 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-88977-948-1 / 0889779481 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-88977-948-8 / 9780889779488 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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