Drought,resettlement and accounting |
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| Institution: | 1. National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues (HZAU)/MAO Key Laboratory for the Detection of Veterinary Drug Residues in Foods, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China;2. Hunan Agricultural University, Veterinary Faculty, Changsha, Hunan 410128, China;3. Center for Basic and Applied Research, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic;1. Private Practice, Seattle, WA 98102, USA;2. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA;3. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;4. University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA;1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel;2. Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel;1. Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), UAB-IRTA, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona 08193, Spain;2. Institut de Recerca i tecnología Agroalimentaria (IRTA), Barcelona, Spain;3. The Pirbright Institute, Ash Road, Pirbright, GU24 0NF, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | Drought, an insidious form of natural disaster, occurs frequently in the United States. The droughts of the 1930s were a national emergency which combined with economic depression to cause widespread rural poverty and distress. Governmental responses to the crisis were many and included the establishment of experimental resettlement projects for dislocated families. Operated by liberal, socially progressive agencies, these projects attempted to re-establish farm families on more productive land in less arid areas. One such project was the Red River Valley Farms Project in North Dakota. Here, business and home planning, budgeting and record keeping by client families was compulsory. Drawing on the notion of the ‘heroic bureaucracy’, this historical study reveals accounting as a key facilitative technology in the recovery phase of a disaster. The comprehensive accounting records maintained by each family contributed to their successful resettlement and provided the government agency with copious data for monitoring the performance of the project, measuring the progress of its participants, and identifying where support was most needed. |
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| Keywords: | Drought Accounting Recovery Resettlement Heroic bureaucracy North Dakota |
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