Americans are quick to speak up in favor of small family farms and the people who tend them.
But in today's world, those farms are the exception; large-scale industrial agriculture led by corporations is the rule.
Scholars watched from the early 20th century-onward as the Big Ag world took shape, frequently speaking out against it.
The efforts of eight such scholars are detailed in the book In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California.
Co-authors Daniel J. O'Connell and Scott J. Peters visit the Jefferson Exchange to outline the story of the long and still-active struggle.