Review of \u3ci\u3e Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture\u3c/i\u3e By Deborah Fitzgerald

In many ways Deborah Fitzgerald\u27s Every Farm a Factory is a familiar story. Students of early twentieth-century American agriculture will find recognizable contours: mechanization, standardization, economies of scale, depopulation, professionalization, and a developing managerial mind-set. What makes Fitzgerald\u27s work an invigorating contribution to the history of rural America is her framework. The new opportunities and constraints confronting farmers and their families in the 1920s, she argues, were not an accidental convergence