Farm and factory

Description:

Farm and Factory illuminates the importance of the Midwest in U.S. labor history. America's heartland - often overlooked in studies focusing on other regions, or particular cities or industries - has a distinctive labor history characterized by the sustained, simultaneous growth of both agriculture and industry. Since the transfer of labor from farm to factory did not occur in the Midwest until after World War II, industrialists recruited workers elsewhere, especially from Europe and the American South. The region's relatively underdeveloped service sector - shaped by the presumption that goods were more desirable than service - ultimately led to agonizing problems of adjustment as agriculture and industry evolved in the late twentieth century.

subjects: History,  Working class,  Farmers,  Labor policy,  Economic conditions,  Geschichte 1880-1990,  Landwirtschaft,  Arbeiter,  Industrie,  Economic history,  Working class, united states,  Middle west, economic conditions

Places: Middle West

Times: 20th century,  19th century