Pigs, Profits, and Rural Communities

Marc Notes: Swine production industrialization-- impact on rural U. S.; Cloth at $54.50. Publisher Marketing: This book illuminates the processes and consequences of agricultural industrialization, particularly within the swine production industry, for the social, economic, human, environmental, and political health of the rural United States. Contributors come from widely divergent backgrounds including a former U. S. senator, farmers, a veterinarian, a medical psychologist, an agricultural economist, a biological ecologist, a farm organization president, and anthropologists. Set within the theoretical framework of Walter Goldschmidt's research on the community consequences of industrialized food production, these contributions show that the increasing divergence of ownership has real human costs that continue to be ignored by economic developers and policymakers.

Contributor Bio:  Thu, Kendall M Thu is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. He received his Ph. D. in anthropology in 1992 based on ethnographic field research in Norway examining the relationship between state agricultural policy and farming. Contributor Bio:  Durrenberger, E Paul E. Paul Durrenberger was Professor of Anthropology for twenty-five years at the University of Iowa before moving to Pennsylvania State University. He has published many influential articles and books.