Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression: 53 (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression: 53 (California Studies in Food and Culture)

by Janet Poppendieck (Author)

Synopsis

Explains how the New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for poor people, became a program designed to raise the incomes of commercial farmers. This book examines the performance - or lack of performance - of subsequent in-kind relief programs.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Edition: Updated, Expanded ed.
Publisher: California University Press
Published: 13 Jun 2014

ISBN 10: 0520277538
ISBN 13: 9780520277533