There seems to be a lot of push back as the US employment markets move toward knowledge work and away from more traditional industrial roles.
I'm sure there was a similar time in history when moving from focusing on agriculture to industry. My question is, was there a political movement around this as well?
I don't know about "make America farm again" since it happened so early in American history, however Thomas Jefferson was a fan of having a primarily agrarian economy, seeing urbanization as a threat to his ideal democracy. From this source:
Jefferson's thinking, however, was not merely celebratory, for he saw two dangerous threats to his ideal AGRARIAN DEMOCRACY. To him, financial speculation and the development of urban industry both threatened to rob men of the independence that they maintained as farmers. Debt, on the one hand, and factory work, on the other, could rob men of the economic autonomy essential for republican citizens.
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For Jefferson, western expansion provided an escape from the British model. As long as hard working farmers could acquire land at reasonable prices, then America could prosper as a republic of equal and independent citizens. Jefferson's ideas helped to inspire a mass political movement that achieved many key aspects of his plan.
