{"product_id":"farmers-benevolent-trust-9780807847312","title":"Farmer's Benevolent Trust","description":"Americans have always regarded farming as a special calling, one\u003cbr\u003eimbued with the Jeffersonian values of individualism and self-\u003cbr\u003esufficiency. As Victoria Saker Woeste demonstrates, farming's\u003cbr\u003ecultural image continued to shape Americans' expectations of\u003cbr\u003erural society long after industrialization radically transformed\u003cbr\u003ethe business of agriculture. Even as farmers enthusiastically\u003cbr\u003eembraced cooperative marketing to create unprecedented industry-\u003cbr\u003ewide monopolies and control prices, they claimed they were simply\u003cbr\u003epreserving their traditional place in society. In fact, the new\u003cbr\u003elegal form of cooperation far outpaced judicial and legislative\u003cbr\u003edevelopments at both the state and federal levels, resulting in a\u003cbr\u003elegal and political struggle to redefine the place of agriculture\u003cbr\u003ein the industrial market.\u003cbr\u003e Woeste shows that farmers were adept at both borrowing such\u003cbr\u003elegal forms as the corporate trust for their own purposes and\u003cbr\u003eobtaining legislative recognition of the new cooperative style.\u003cbr\u003eIn the process, however, the first rule of capitalism--every\u003cbr\u003eperson for him- or herself--trumped the traditional principle of\u003cbr\u003ecooperation. After 1922, state and federal law wholly endorsed\u003cbr\u003ecooperation's new form. Indeed, says Woeste, because of its\u003cbr\u003ecorporate roots, this model of cooperation fit so neatly with the\u003cbr\u003eregulatory paradigms of the first half of the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003ethat it became an essential policy of the modern administrative\u003cbr\u003estate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Saker Woeste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.29h x 6.16w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807847312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWoeste, Victoria Saker:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Victoria Saker Woeste is a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161647067251,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7dc20571-a841-44d0-a095-75ce02693bf7.jpg?v=1654955584","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/farmers-benevolent-trust-9780807847312","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}