PRAIRIE LIVES: THE CHANGING FACE OF FARMING Ross, Lois L. Toronto, Between the Lines, c1985.172pp, paper, ISBN 0-919946-48-8 (cloth) $39.95, 0-919946-49-6 (paper) $24.95. CIP Adult Reviewed by Gerald R. Brown Volume 14 Number 1 1986 January This collection of interviews, with photographs, provides a critical view of farmers in the Prairies, from the small family farmer to the corporate farmer, including organic, co-operative, and chemical farmers, those on the brink of bankruptcy, and farm women, and farm workers. Ross illustrates the rich, complex diversity of farming. She presents a unique and entertaining vision that runs contrary to the romantic view of farming to which many urban folk still cling. This is not intended as any nostalgic trip. It is a call to action to protect the rights of the rural workers. The farm community is becoming increasingly polarized between agribusiness and agriculture. The volume is a landmark statement written from the farming perspective. It is must reading for diploma and degree candidates at the university level, for all economists, and for policy makers in agricultural and rural affairs. Lois Ross is a photojournalist and has co-authored Assault on the Worker: Occupational Health and Safety in Canada (Butterworth, 1981). She comes from a fourth-generation prairie farm family in Gravel-bourg, Saskatchewan. Gerald R. Brown, Winnipeg School Division No. 1, Winnipeg, Man.