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Winders's book is at its best when it links both the policy's [of agricultural supply management] persistence and its 1996 elimination to the political support of three commodity-based segments within agriculture: corn, wheat, and cotton. Winders claims that class transformation within the cotton segment was the ultimate key to the policy reversal. -Edward C. Jaenicke, American Journal of Sociology -- Edward C. Jaenicke American Journal of Sociology Breaking new ground, Winders' original class analysis of US agricultural politics differentiates commodity programs as vectors of privilege and change in farm policy and markets at home and abroad. -Philip McMichael, Cornell University -- Philip McMichael The Politics of Food Supply traces the fate of New Deal agricultural policies that were the mainstay of federal policy until the 1990s. In a fascinating historical account, Bill Winders explains why a nation wedded to a free market ideology has provided price supports for each of the major crops-corn, cotton and wheat-in its agricultural policy. A pathbreaking contribution to political sociology and comparative historical sociology. -Jill Quadagno, author of One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance -- Jill Quadagno Bill Winders in The Politics of Food Supply: U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy provides an engaging and incisive account of the history and political economy of farm policy in the United States. --Sandeep Vaheesan -- Sandeep Vaheesan ASEAN Economic Bulletin In The Politics of Food Supply Winders makes a significant contribution to the sociology of agrifood studies. Established academics and graduate students in the areas of historical sociology and the sociology of the agrifood system will find this book an engaging read as well as a valuable example of critical agrifood research. -Douglas H. Constance, Agriculture and Human Values -- Douglas H. Constance Agriculture and Human Values Winner of the 2011 Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association Book Award -- Distinguished Book Award American Sociological Association

In The Politics of Food Supply Winders makes a significant contribution to the sociology of agrifood studies. Established academics and graduate students in the areas of historical sociology and the sociology of the agrifood system will find this book an engaging read as well as a valuable example of critical agrifood research. --Douglas H./i>--Douglas H. Constance Agriculture and Human Values

The Politics of Food Supply traces the fate of New Deal agricultural policies that were the mainstay of federal policy until the 1990s. In a fascinating historical account, Bill Winders explains why a nation wedded to a free market ideology has provided price supports for each of the major cropscorn, cotton and wheatin its agricultural policy. A pathbreaking contribution to political sociology and comparative historical sociology. Jill Quadagno, author of One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance -- Jill Quadagno

Winner of the 2011 Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) Section of the American Sociological Association Book Award--Distinguished Book Award American Sociological Association (08/22/2011)

The Politics of Food Supply traces the fate of New Deal agricultural policies that were the mainstay of federal policy until the 1990s. In a fascinating historical account, Bill Winders explains why a nation wedded to a free market ideology has provided price supports for each of the major crops--corn, cotton and wheat--in its agricultural policy. A pathbreaking contribution to political sociology and comparative historical sociology. --Jill Quadagno, author of One Nation, Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance <br>--Jill Quadagno

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Bill Winders is associate professor of sociology, the School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology. He lives in Atlanta.

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