Records, 1954-1976.

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Records, 1954-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21170849

The collection contains articles, biographical information, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, news releases, publications, reports, printed materials, research files, speeches, statements, book manuscripts, and responses to the first publication (Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times). The collection documents the work of the project in revealing the impact of corporate interests on the practice of agriculture in the United States. In addition to general research materials documenting agribusiness, cooperatives, the land-grant college system, migrant workers, and urbanization, the collection contains the manuscripts and research files associated with Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times and Eat Your Heart Out.

14.7 linear ft. (35 document boxes)

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7004611

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Agribusiness Accountability Project

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n36v8z (corporateBody)

Public interest organization founded in 1970 and based in Washington, D.C. Initially concerned with migrant and seasonal farm workers, focus soon turned to additional issues such as corporate power in agriculture, land grant college system, cooperatives, rural social movements and tax loss farming. The AAP was the joint endeavor of three Washington public interest groups: the Project on Corporate Responsibility, the Center for Community Change, and the Washington Research Project. It was funded ...

Butz, Earl L. (Earl Lauer), 1909-2008

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Government official, educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Earl Lauer Butz : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122569472 ...

Hightower, Jim.

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Hightower, Jim, 1943-

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National Farmers Organization (U.S.)

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The National Farmers Organization (NFO) was founded in 1955 to combat low prices farmers received from food processors. The NFO argued that farmers made up nine percent of the nation's population but only earned four percent of its income. The early history of the NFO was marked by radicalism; farmers organized withholding actions to increase prices, then staged boycotts and protests. The more aggressive aspects of the organization's activities receded by 1979, when its focus turned to collectiv...