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Titolo: | Communities of work : rural restructuring in local and global contexts / / edited by William W. Falk, Michael D. Schulman, and Ann R. Tickamyer |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | xxiii, 439 p. : ill., map |
Disciplina: | 307.72/0973 |
Soggetto topico: | Sociology, Rural - United States |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Rural conditions |
United States Rural conditions Case studies | |
Altri autori: | FalkWilliam W SchulmanMichael D TickamyerAnn R |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Communities ofWork -- Part I: Region,Work, and Restructuring -- 1 Old Industrial Regions and the Political Economy of Development -- 2 Place, Race, and State -- 3 Meat Processing in Rural America -- 4 Socioeconomic Trends in Mining-Dependent Counties in Appalachia -- 5 From Extraction to Amenities -- Part II: Work and Community -- 6 Troubled Waters or Business as Usual? -- 7 Identity of Self and Others through Work -- 8 Sense of Place and Rural Restructuring -- 9 Housing Labor's Unrest -- 10 Hogs and Citizens -- 11 Does Welfare to Work Work? -- Part III Reaction and Resistance -- 12 The Bus from Hell Hole Swamp -- 13 Stretched to Their Limits -- 14 Earning a Living and Building a Life -- 15 Livelihood Strategies of Farmers in Puerto Rico's Central Region -- 16 Older Workers and Retirement in Rural Contexts -- 17 The Social and Economic Context of Informal Work -- Empirical Realities, Theoretical Lessons, and Political Implications -- Contributors -- Index. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Communities of work |
ISBN: | 0-89680-447-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910827826603321 |
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