Agriculture: People and Policies

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
The state and the farmer: perspectives on agricultural policy....Pages 1-19
Capitalism, petty commodity production and the farm enterprise....Pages 20-40
Family enterprises in agriculture: structural limits and political possibilities....Pages 41-60
The development of family farming in west Devon in the nineteenth century....Pages 61-76
Part-time farming: its place in the structure of agriculture....Pages 77-92
Small scale farming in the Northern Ireland rural economy....Pages 93-104
Landownership relations and the development of modern British agriculture....Pages 105-125
Property—state relations in the 1980s: an examination of landlord—tenant legislation in British agriculture....Pages 126-145
Investment styles and countryside change in lowland England....Pages 146-159
British agriculture under attack....Pages 160-180
Agriculture and conservation in Britain: a policy community under seige....Pages 181-215
Agricultural policy and party politics in post-war Britain....Pages 216-236
Back Matter....Pages 237-244