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Agriculture -- Middle West -- Safety measures.
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Family farms -- Middle West -- Safety measures.
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Harvest of hazards :...
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Harvest of hazards : family farming, accidents, and expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940-1975 / Derek S. Oden.
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Oden, Derek, author.
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2017
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Iowa and the Midwest experience.
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xi, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Acknowledgments; Chapter One. From Accidents to Action; Chapter Two. A Home and a Workplace; Chapter Three. Machinery Hazards; Chapter Four. The Perils of Chemical Use; Chapter Five. Igniting the Movement; Chapter Six. Professionalizing Farm Safety; Chapter Seven. Selling the Safety Message; Chapter Eight. An Ideal Fit: 4-H and FFA; Chapter Nine. From Cooperation to Division; Chapter Ten. Conclusion; Epilogue; Notes; Index
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Farming has always been a dangerous occupation. In the middle of the twentieth century, as farmers adopted a wide array of new technologies, from tractors to pesticides and fertilizers, the dangers became more acute. The economic pressures that agriculture faced in this period compounded the perils of these powerful new tools, as farmers struggled to stay profitable in the face of widespread consolidation. In this study of the farm safety movement in the Corn Belt, historian Derek Oden examines why agriculture was so dangerous and why improvements were so difficult to achieve. Because farmers were self-employed business owners whose employees were mainly family members; because they lived far from aid such as hospitals and fire stations; and because they had to manage such a diverse array of new technologies, they could not easily adopt the workplace safety and public health reforms designed for factories and urban settings. In response, beginning in the 1940s, farmers and a new breed of farm safety specialists relied upon an increasingly elaborate educational campaign to lessen injuries and illnesses on the farm. Several government, business, and nonprofit organizations—from the US Department of Agriculture to the National Safety Council and 4-H and the Future Farmers of America—worked together to publicize both the dangers of farming and the information farmers needed to stay safe while driving tractors, applying anhydrous ammonia, or repairing machinery. By the 1960s, however, the partnership began to break down, and by the 1970s the safety movement became increasingly contested as professional and policy divisions emerged. This groundbreaking study incorporates agriculture into the histories of occupational safety and public health.
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