Contesting agriculture cooperativism and privatization in the new Eastern Germany /
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| Main Author: | Buechler, Hans C. |
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| Other Authors: | Buechler, Judith-Maria., EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2002]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series: |
SUNY series in the anthropology of work.
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| Summary: |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-342) and index. Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Identities -- pt. I Communist Period -- 3. History of Collectivization in Agriculture -- 4. LPG -- pt. II Post-Communist Period -- Introduction: The Aftermath of Reunification -- 5. Cooperative Solution -- 6. New Cooperatives: Continuity and Change -- 7. Eastern Independent Farmers -- 8. Western Farmers -- 9. Service/Industrial Context of Agriculture: Linkages and Permutations -- 10. Conclusion. Annotation. Two professors of anthropology analyze the effects of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since the demise of communism. The impact of the transition on farmers' concepts of their own identities a central theme. The text is based largely upon 30 oral histories from cooperative managers, newly independent family farmers, and westerners who established farms in the east. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco Academic. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-342) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585463174 9780585463179 0791452816 9780791452813 0791452824 9780791452820 9780791489093 0791489094 |