Author: Mark A. Lause

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2005-06-14

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0252029801

"[Lause] argues that the interest of of working people in equitable access to the country's most obvious asset -- land -- led them to advocate a federal homestead act granting land to the landless, state legislation to prohibit the foreclosure of family farms, and antimonopolistic limitations on land ownership ...