Persistent Poverty in Rural America: Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty

ISBN-13: 9780367298104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 379 str.

Rural Sociological Society; Emery N. Castle

Opis

A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America

Spis treści

Foreword -- Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty -- Introduction -- Poverty in Rural America: Trends and Demographic Characteristics -- Human Capital, Labor Supply, and Poverty in Rural America -- Work Structures and Rural Poverty -- Spatial Location of Economic Activities, Uneven Development, and Rural Poverty -- Theories in the Study of Natural Resource-Dependent Communities and Persistent Rural Poverty in the United States -- Persistent Rural Poverty and Racial and Ethnic Minorities -- Women and Persistent Rural Poverty -- Rural Families and Children in Poverty -- The Rural Elderly and Poverty -- The State, Rural Policy, and Rural Poverty

O autorze

Gene F. Summers is Professor Emeritus of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.