Endangered spaces, enduring places : change, identity, and survival in rural America /

Endangered spaces, enduring places : change, identity, and survival in rural America /

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Author / Creator:Fitchen, Janet M.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1991.
Description:xiv, 314 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Farm life -- New York (State)
Rural poor -- New York (State)
Community organization -- New York (State)
Community organization.
Farm life.
Rural conditions.
Rural poor.
New York (State) -- Rural conditions.
New York (State)
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1121647
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ISBN:0813311144 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813311152 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Introduction Rural America In a Time of Change
  • Part 1. The Farm Crisis And Its Challenge To Rural Community Life
  • Chapter 2. Dairy Farms In a Time of Change Struggle for Survival
  • Chapter 3. Community Impacts The Special Significance Of Dairy Farm Losses
  • Part 2. Shifting Nonfarm Economies
  • Chapter 4. Paradox in Rural Economies Vigor and Vulnerability
  • Chapter 5. Plant Closings And Substitute Jobs Labor Force for Sale
  • Part 3. Changing Rural Populations
  • Chapter 6. People and Places Demographic Change And Local Response
  • Chapter 7. Perceptions and Frictions Problems in Accepting And Absorbing Newcomers
  • Part 4. Worsening Rural Poverty
  • Chapter 8. Poverty in Rural Places Patterns and Changes
  • Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Rural Impoverization: Causes and Process
  • Part 5. Providing Community Services in Changing Circumstances
  • Chapter 10. Problems in Meeting Rural Service Needs
  • Chapter 11. Local Innovation And Cooperation
  • Part 6. Changes and Challenges In Local Government
  • Chapter 12. Leadership and Local Government in Flux Changes In Who, What, and How
  • Chapter 13. New Governmental Interactions Around a New Environmental Problem
  • Part 7. New Uses for Rural Lands Dumping Ground for Society
  • Chapter 14. Prisons in the Wilderness The New Growth Industry Of Rural New York
  • Chapter 15. Waste Disposal Llrw and Other Lulus
  • Part 8. Rural Identity And Survival
  • Chapter 16. What Then is Rural? Challenges to Rural And Community Identity
  • Chapter 17. Ensuring the Survival Of Rural Places
  • Appendix 1. Anthropological Approach To Studying Change In Rural Communities
  • Appendix 2. Selected Data On the Four Core Research Counties
  • References
  • About the Book and Author
  • Index

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