The Spinach King: the rise and fall of an American dynasty

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"They say behind every great fortune there is a great crime. At Seabrook Farms, the troubling American histories of race, immigration, and exploitation arise like weeds from the soil. Great Migration Black laborers struck against the company for better wages in the 1930s, and Japanese Americans helped found a 'global village' on the farm after World War II. Revealing both C. F. and Jack Seabrook's corruption, The Spinach King undermines the 'great man' theory of industrial progress. It also shows how American farms evolved from Jeffersonian smallholdings to gigantic agribusinesses, and what such enormous firms do to the families whose fate is bound up in the land"--
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Agricultural industries -- United States
Biographies
Dysfunctional families
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Family-owned business enterprises -- Succession -- United States
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Food industry and trade -- Corrupt practices
Food industry and trade -- United States
Industrial relations -- United States
Inheritance and succession
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Seabrook Brothers and Sons
Seabrook family
Seabrook, Charles Franklin, -- 1881-1964
Seabrook, John M., -- 1917-2009
True crime stories
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The Spinach King : the rise and fall of an American dynasty
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The Spinach King The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
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The Spinach King
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the rise and fall of an American dynasty
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Corrupt practices
Dysfunctional families
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Seabrook, Charles Franklin
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