![]() | The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness Subjects: Poultry industry -- Georgia -- History; Poultry industry -- United States -- History; Agricultural industries -- United States -- History; Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History; Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day, Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had first underpinned the cotton-growing crop-lien system, ultimately transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained dependent on large agribusiness firms. MONICA R. GISOLFI is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. |
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