Main entry:

Harper, Douglas A.

Title & Author:

Changing works : visions of a lost agriculture / Douglas Harper.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Description:

xi, 302 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Introduction: Research with Photographs -- Historical Frameworks -- The Machine in the Garden: Horses and Tractors -- Making Hay -- Oats and Corn: Changing Works -- The Corn Revolution -- The Meaning of Changing Works -- Gendered Worlds -- Souping Up Cows -- The History since Then.

Summary:

"The work of Douglas Harper has for two decades documented worlds in eclipse. A glimpse into the life of dairy farmers in upstate New York on the cusp of technological change, Changing Works is no exception. With photographs and interviews with farmers, Harper brings into view a social world altered by machines and stuns us with gorgeous visions of rural times past. As a member of this community, Harper relates compelling stories about families and their dairies that reveal how the advent of industrialized labor changed the way farmers structure their work and organize their lives. His new book charts the transformation of American farming from small dairies based on animal power and cooperative work to industrialized agriculture."
"Changing Works combines Harper's pictures with classic images by photographers such as Gordon Parks, Sol Libsohn, and Charlotte Brooks - men and women whose works during the 1940s documented the mechanization and automation of agricultural practices. Part social history, then, and part analysis of the drive to mass production, Changing Works examines how we farmed a half century ago versus how we do so today through pictures new and old and through discussions with elderly farmers who witnessed the makeover."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226317226 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780226317229 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Agriculture United States.
Agricultural innovations United States.
Dairy farming New York (State)
Agriculture United States Pictorial works.
Agricultural innovations United States Pictorial works.
Dairy farming New York (State) Pictorial works.
Agriculture Innovations États-Unis.
Élevage laitier New York (État)
Agriculture Innovations États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Élevage laitier New York (État) Ouvrages illustrés.
48.12 history of agriculture.
Agricultural innovations
Agriculture
Dairy farming
Agrarstruktur
Milchwirtschaft
Strukturwandel
Landwirtschaftsentwicklung
Landbouw.
Veeteelt.
Technische vernieuwing.
New York (State)
United States
USA

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works (form)
Interviews (form)
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232769
Call No.: S441.H2943 2001
Status: Available