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ByRandy Ziegenhorn
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“Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.” –Mark Twain
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This work contributes to the anthropological examination of industrial agriculture by presenting an ethnographic assessment of cooperative and competitive relationships in the swine industry in Iowa. The shift of swine production from household to corporate producers has created an agro-industrial system that threatens the future of family farms. This study describes the networks of farms that are emerging in response to these changes. An analysis incorporating the structural and institutional contexts of economic relationships as well as the decision-making processes of individuals is presented as an alternative to the methodological individualism of neoclassical economics. Cooperative and competitive relationships are seen as products of transaction costs associated with existing institutions and as an attempt by organizations to modify those institutions.
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