Trucking country [electronic resource] : the road to America's Wal-Mart economy /
by Hamilton, Shane; ProQuest (Firm).
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BookSeries: Politics and society in twentieth-century America: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008Description: xi, 305 p. : ill., maps.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Truck drivers -- United States -- History | United States -- Rural conditions | United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Food and power in the New Deal, 1933-42 -- Chaos, control, and country trucking, 1933-42 -- Food fights in war and peace, 1942-52 -- Trucking culture and politics in the agribusiness era, 1953-61 -- Beef trusts and asphalt cowboys -- The milkman and the milk hauler -- Agrarian trucking culture and deregulatory capitalism, 1960-80.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-291) and index.
Food and power in the New Deal, 1933-42 -- Chaos, control, and country trucking, 1933-42 -- Food fights in war and peace, 1942-52 -- Trucking culture and politics in the agribusiness era, 1953-61 -- Beef trusts and asphalt cowboys -- The milkman and the milk hauler -- Agrarian trucking culture and deregulatory capitalism, 1960-80.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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