The structure and future of Britains agriculture sector are the central concerns of this volume, first published in 1986. It critically examines the mystique surrounding agriculture which has done much to underpin the special support the industry had enjoyed. The papers collected here address many of the key questions: What is distinctive about the social and economic organisation of agricultural production? What are the main factors which have influenced policy formation? And how are the policy makers likely to respond to widespread concern about the economic and environmental impact of those policies?
1. The State and the Farmer: Perspectives on Agricultural Policy Graham
Cox, Philip Lowe and Michael Winter
2. Capitalism, Petty Commodity Production
and the Farm Enterprise David Goodman and Michael Redclift
3. Family
Enterprises in Agriculture: Structural Limits and Political Possibilities
Harriet Friedmann
4. The Development of Family Farming in West Devon in the
Nineteenth Century Michael Winter
5. Part-Time Farming: its Place in the
Structure of Agriculture Ruth Gasson
6. Small Scale Farming in the Northern
Ireland Rural Economy Joan Moss
7. Landownership Relations and the
Development of Modern British Agriculture Sarah Whatmore
8. Property-State
Relations in the 1980s: an Examination of Landlord-Tenant Legislation in
British Agriculture Terry Marsden
9. Investment Styles and Countryside Change
in Lowland England Clive Potter
10. British Agriculture Under Attack George
Peters
11. Agriculture and Conservatism in Britain: a Policy Community Under
Siege Graham Cox, Philip Lowe and Michael Winter
12. Agricultural Policy and
Party Politics in Post-War Britain Andrew Flynn
Graham Cox, Philip Lowe, Michael Winter
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