Citation:

4 Frederick H Buttel. 1990. Social relations and the growth of modern agriculture. Pages 113-145. In: C Ronald Carroll, John H Vandermeer, Peter Rosset (editors). Agroecology. McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, New York, 641 pages.

Keywords: the evolution of world agriculture, commodification, farming and the agribusiness chain, agriculture and the internationalization of capital, agriculture and structure and social change: roads of development, latifundia systems, the transformation of the American family farm, agricultural research and technology change, economic factors and government policies, the general operation of market forces, ecological aspects of US farm structure, recent trends in agricultural research and alternative agriculture, the farm crisis and the future of US agriculture