| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Victoria Saker Woeste. The Farmer's Benevolent Trust: Law and Agricultural Cooperation in Industrial America, 1865–1945. (Studies in Legal History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 369. Cloth $49.94, paper $19.95.

Victoria Saker Woeste skillfully weaves legal, business, and agricultural history to explain the transformation of cooperative marketing and cooperative marketing law from 1865 to 1945. How and why, Woeste asks, did cooperatives, once vehicles for economic reform, emerge after 1900 as tightly organized sales associations and as integral institutions of capitalist agriculture? And why, too, were these cooperatives granted antitrust immunity? Woeste answers these questions by focusing on the early history of the Sun-Maid Raisin Growers and the emergence of a "California style" of centralized cooperative marketing because it was the raisin cooperatives that initiated the institutional and legal changes in cooperative marketing during and after the Progressive era. More generally, she argues, these changes reveal how law and state interacted to construct twentieth-century markets. . . .

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