Yeoman No More: The Industrialization of American Agriculture

菲茨杰拉德教授正在继续她的工作，寻求在更广泛的工业化框架内定位美国农业的科学和技术变革。迄今为止的研究表明，农业创新是对严重的农业萧条和农业工程师和经济学家作为新的专业群体出现的直接反应，他们都把城市工程师和经济学家的观点带入了农业。在20世纪20年代，人们可以看到在物质和意识形态方面，一系列以制造业实践为基础的农业实践的尝试。这个项目的主题包括经济学和工程学领域的农业专家的出现；创造一种农业效率和丰饶的风气；农业机械化；大规模“工厂化”养殖的趋势；这样一个农场的案例研究；集体化作为大规模农场的典范。本项目旨在为美国农业变化提供一种更具解释性的解释，并为过去的科学和工程实践者提供一套新的文化和智力基准，他们对我们文化的物质重塑是如此明显。

Professor Fitzgerald is continuing her work that seeks to locate the scientific and technological transformations in American agriculture within the broader framework of industrialization. Research so far indicates that agricultural innovations were a direct response to both the severe agricultural depression and the emergence of agricultural engi neers and economists as new professional groups, both of whom brought to agriculture the views of urban engineers and economists. In the 1920s one can see a series of attempts to model agricultural practice on manufacturing practice, in both material and ideological terms. Topics in this project include the emergence of agricultural experts in economics and engineering; the creation of an ethos of agricultural efficiency and abundance; the mechanization of agriculture; the trend toward large-scale, "factory" farming; a case study of such a farm; and the role of collectivization as a model for large-scale farms. Thi s project seeks to offer both a more interpretive account of agricultural change in America and a new set of cultural and intellectual benchmarks for the scientific and engineering practitioners of the past, whose material reshaping of our culture has been so pronounced.