| Description |
1 online resource (465 pages) |
| 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? |
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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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Rural -- United States
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Rural conditions
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Sociology, Rural
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Rural conditions -- Case studies
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United States -- Rural conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140507
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schulman, Michael D
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Tickamyer, Ann R
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| ISBN |
9780896804470 |
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089680447X |
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