Persistent poverty in rural America
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Persistent poverty in rural America
(Rural studies series of the Rural Sociological Society)
Westview Press, 1993
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-379)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A team of anthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologists examine the leading explanations for why poverty persists in rural America. Their findings discredit established theories such as the culture of poverty and suggest new explanations for rural poverty and new directions for antipoverty programs and policies. Why does rural poverty persist? Despite a variety of programs and policies that have attempted to improve the lot of the poor over the past twenty-five years, rural poverty not only persists but is getting worse. The Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty was organized to search for answers that will lead to effective solutions. A team of more than fifty leading social scientistsanthropologists, economists, geographers, political scientists, social workers, and sociologistsworked together to examine all the leading explanations; to seek out logical flaws, obsolete beliefs, and factually discredited ideas; and to analyze incomplete explanations. This important volume presents the Task Forces findings.The Task Force report explains that the culture of poverty theory is logically flawed and lacks factual support and that the human capital and economic organization theories are incomplete.
Alone, none of these theories provides an adequate explanation for persistent rural poverty. The book reveals new directions in theory that should provide a firmer foundation for antipoverty programs and policies: Gender, race, and ethnicity must be explicitly integrated into explanations of poverty; local events and processes need to be linked to global changes; and explanations for the intergenerational transmission of poverty should be looked for in community social structures. The Task Force also explores how macrolevel economics and national and state actions contribute to the persistence of rural poverty.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- (Emery N. Castle. )
- 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 ResourceDependent 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
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