10 How People Make a Living in Rural America

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Figures xi
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I: Who Lives in Rural America Today?
8. New Directions in Population Change and Diversity
9. 1 Unpredictable Directions of Rural Population Growth and Migration 19
10. 2 African Americans in Rural America 32
11. 3 American Indians 43
12. 4 Latinos in Rural America 57
13. Reshuffling and Remaking Rural Families
14. 5 What Do Rural Families Look Like Today? 73
15. 6 Older Rural Families 86
16. 7 Rural Children and Youth at Risk 97
17. 8 Rural Women 109
18. 9 Rural Poverty 118
19. Part II: A Transformed Rural Economy
20. 10 How People Make a Living in Rural America 135
21. 11 Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? 152
22. 12 Commuting 166
23. 13 Continuities and Disjunctures in the Transformation of the U.S. Agro-Food System 177
24. 14 Tourism and Natural Amenity Development 190
25. Part III: The Rural Community: Is It Local? Is It a Community?
26. Perspectives on Community
27. 15 Community Agency and Local Development 203
28. 16 Social Capital 214
29. 17 Civil Society, Civic Communities, and Rural Development 228
30. The Social Institutions That Maintain and Reproduce Community
31. 18 The Global/Local Interface 241
32. 19 Competition, Cooperation, and Local Governance 252
33. 20 Religion 262
34. 21 Promoting Educational Achievement 273
35. 22 Rural Health Policy 290
36. Part IV: People and the Environment: Tough Tradeoffs in an Era with Vanishing Buffers
37. 23 Transforming Rural America 305
38. 24 Community and Resource Extraction in Rural America 317
39. 25 Fur, Fins, and Feathers 329
40. Part V: Changing National and International Policies: New Uncertainties and New Challenges
41. 26 What Role Can Community Play in Local Economic Development? 343
42. 27 Devolution 353
43. 28 Welfare Reform in Rural Areas 363
44. 29 The Impact of Global Economic Practices on American Farming 375
45. 30 Catalytic Community Development 385
46. Conclusion 397
47. References 407
48. Contributors 473
49. Index 481