Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression Volume 53

by Janet Poppendieck

Book Overview

At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived as a "paradox." In fact, as Janet Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated volume, it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520277546
• ISBN13: 9780520277540
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"