Description |
ix, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series |
Critical perspectives on rural change series |
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Critical perspectives on rural change series.
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Contents |
Introduction : Questions of rurality / Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe and Sarah Whatmore -- Who is rural? or, how to be rural : towards a sociology of the rural / Marc Mormont -- Restructuring agriculture in advanced societies : transformation, crisis and responses -- Patrick Commins -- Paradigmatic shift in agriculture : global effects and the Swedish response / Martin Peterson -- Agricultural restructuring and rural social change in Australia / Geoffrey Lawrence -- Rural labour-market changes in the United States / Gene F. Summers, Francine Horton and Christina Gringeri -- Class and change in rural Britain / Paul Cloke and Nigel Thrift -- Household, consumption and livelihood : ideologies and issues in rural research / Nanneke Redclift and Sarah Whatmore |
Analysis |
Agricultural industries |
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Australia overseas comparisons |
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Farms |
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Labour market |
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Rural areas |
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Social change |
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Social classes |
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Sociology |
Notes |
Rural communities (BNB/PRECIS) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Agriculture and state.
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Rural development.
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Sociology, Rural.
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Author |
Lowe, Philip.
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Marsden, Terry.
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Whatmore, Sarah.
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LC no. |
95176206 |
ISBN |
1853461113 |
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