Dissertations and Theses @ UNI
Availability
Open Access Thesis
Keywords
Agriculture--Middle West--History--20th century;
Abstract
Agriculture is an industry that defines a unique society in the American Midwest. When farming technologies changed, agriculture as a system and society also changed. This thesis explores the critical changes that farmers faced during the 20th Century. Those links include a changing educational system, which would guide farmers into the world of mechanical farming technology, and the permeation of that technology in farm society. The economic cost of the changing aspects of agriculture drove social and technological change that took place during the years of the Great Depression through the 1980s Farm Crisis. Finally, this thesis covers the future growth of family corporations as a coping mechanism for families to deal with the increased economic burden that the technological changes brought about for farmers.
Year of Submission
2019
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of History
First Advisor
Joanne Goldman, chair
Date Original
2019
Object Description
1 PDF file (vii, 92 pages)
Copyright
©2019 Zachary Cass Moye
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Moye, Zachary Cass, "The price of progress: American agricultural innovations in relation to economic and social change, 1920-1989" (2019). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 990.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/990
