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"Modernity" and U.S. farm women's poultry operations. Jane Adams,Southern Illinois University

Farm women became modern by feeding both the urban middle classes and the working classes. In the processes, they remained productive workers, both within the domestic realm (like peasants) and as petty commodity producers.
"Modernity" and U.S. farm women's poultry operations: farm women nourish the industrializing cities 1880-1940. Paper presented at the international conference, The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History: From Neolithic Middens to McNuggets. May 17-19, 2002, Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies. © Jane Adams 2002

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Seymour, E.L.D., ed. 1919 [1918]. Farm Knowledge: A Complete manual of Successful Farming. Sears, Roebuck and Co., Garden City and New York: Doubleday, Page & Company.