id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 8g84mk63t0z Sheila Kathryn Nowinski Peasants into Farmers: The Jeunesse Agricole Catholique and the Modernization of Rural France, 1930åÑ1960 2012 .txt text/plain 348 12 30 I argue that the Jeunesse agricole provided rural youth with a path to the modern worldÌ¢åÛåÓthat of France's Ì¢åÛåÏthirty glorious years,Ì¢åÛå marked by a burgeoning consumer economy and industrial growth, including industrial agriculture. With these new social identities, rural Catholic Action associations facilitated processes of social and economic change that emptied the countryside, consolidated industrial agriculture, and reinforced and legitimized an interventionist state. cache/8g84mk63t0z.txt txt/8g84mk63t0z.txt