Description
🌾 Where literature meets the roots of America’s agricultural revolution.
- DIVERSE VOICES INCLUDED - Insights from Willa Cather to Wendell Berry reveal evolving social and environmental narratives.
- TIMELY SOCIAL COMMENTARY - Engages with themes of technology, gender roles, environmental harm, and migrant labor exploitation.
- CRITICAL REINTERPRETATION - Challenges traditional pastoral views to uncover complex human-land relationships.
- HISTORICAL WORKFORCE SHIFT - Trace the dramatic decline from 60% to under 1% of farmers in the American workforce over a century.
- LITERARY LENS ON AGRICULTURE - Explore how iconic American writers dissect the transformation of farming beyond economics.
Working the Garden offers a compelling literary exploration of American agriculture’s industrialization, revealing how celebrated authors have critically engaged with the social, environmental, and technological upheavals reshaping rural life from the 19th century onward.
