Hemp and the Global Economy: The Rise of Labor, Innovation, and Trade

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Hemp helped not only to define economic development in southern and border-states, it also played a crucial role in agricultural production in the Mid-Atlantic, as well as industrial development in the North-east. From the founding of the nation, the manufacture of American hemp helped monetize the US economy. US hemp producers also established a range modern labor practices, including the identification and training of skilled labor, the use of seasonal workers, and ultimately, the creation of a sliding scale of wages. This book chronicles this history, as well as the contemporary controversy obstructing the production of both industrial hemp and medical marijuana. The analysis concludes with a survey of current industrial hemp projects, including several promising adaptations - as a potential medicine, a bio-fuel, and most promisingly, a reliable source of clean computing fabrication.

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Hashim has written a useful overview of global hemp production from antiquity to the present, including the current public policy controversies in the United States. . . . Readers interested in hemp production as it relates to labor, manufacturing, and marketing worldwide, with an emphasis on the United States, will find this study a good place to begin.-- "Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains"
This book is a readable and important history of the uneven rise and fall of hemp farming and production in the United States. Hashim skillfully situates hemp in the larger political, economic, and labor worlds that determined its fate as both a viable crop for American farmers and a marketable resource in the world economy.--James C. Giesen, Professor, Mississippi State University and Fellow of the Agricultural History Society

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Nadra Hashim is reviewer for the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.