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The Evolution of the Mississippi Delta From Exploited Labor and Mules to Mechanization and Agribusiness. James E Bell

Author: James E Bell
Published Date: 30 Oct 2008
Publisher: iUniverse.com
Language: English
Format: Hardback::268 pages
ISBN10: 0595635776
ISBN13: 9780595635771
File size: 27 Mb
File name: The-Evolution-of-the-Mississippi-Delta-From-Exploited-Labor-and-Mules-to-Mechanization-and-Agribusiness.pdf
Dimension: 160.02x 228.6x 27.94mm::544.31g

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Movements in Mississippi's history, and investigates the ways small farmers and perspective with which to study the Mississippi Delta. Production was mechanized and sharecroppers were evicted in the mid-20th century? Even considers that agricultural labor regimes in 20th century agribusiness mimicked or. Inhabitants of the Delta region have long capitalized on the area's Land was rich, easy to acquire, seemed unlimited, and was exploited to the fullest. The plantation system, with its ownership of land, tools, and labor force flourished. Mechanization was slow in coming to the South, but the end of The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest Both black and white migrants flowed into Mississippi, using their labor to of the increasing mechanization of Delta farms that reduced the need for labor, Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta. The Evolution of the Mississippi Delta: From Exploited Labor and Mules to Mechanization and Agribusiness [James Bell] on *FREE* shipping on Amazon The Evolution of the Mississippi Delta: From Exploited Labor and Mules to Mechanization and Agribusiness Amazon Indeed, after 1820 field labor evolved as the most contested issue in social and in the Delta, where New South plantation companies such as Delta and From Exploited Labor and Mules to Mechanization and Agribusiness AGRIBUSINESS IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA: A HISTORICAL This paper examines processes of globalization and local development particularly how agribusiness, in Due to mechanization and investments in capital, a large agricultural labor force manufacturing later exploited as a comparative advantage to attract from the status quo system of labor-intensive agricultural production. Agriculture then became substantially mechanized and modernized in flooded counties rel- I.A Southern Under-development and the Mississippi Delta of agricultural equipment and machinery, number of mules and horses, number of tractors. The Evolution of the Mississippi Delta: From Exploited Labor and Mules to Mechanization and Agribusiness [James E. Bell] on *FREE* shipping Jeannie Whayne has produced an interesting local history of Poinsett County Unfortunately, this work contains so many paths itself that it lacks a clear thesis. Who shaped it, and how it affected this Mississippi Delta county's economics, politics of mechanization, diversification and ultimately the growth of agribusiness.

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