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The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars

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Tells how, early within the 20th century, tens of thousands of tobacco growers in Kentucky and Tennessee, uninterested with the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company, formed cooperatives to stay their produce off the market till they were given a good value. Continues with the rise up’s unfold to the burley country, where, in 1908, tobacco farmers won the largest agricultural strike within the country’s history. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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