Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1988
Abstract
During the Great Depression, farm families throughout the nation experienced severe economic difficulties. Since then, historians and other scholars have analyzed and reanalyzed the basic problems of American agriculture and the solutions offered to those problems. Only recently, however, have the scholars begun to take a wide view of rural society during the 1930s and begun to look at the dynamics of the farm family: the roles, influences, and contributions of farm women and the work roles and treatment of farm children. 1
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly GPQ 8 (Spring 1988): 79-88. Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.