Economic restructuring and family well-being in rural America
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Economic restructuring and family well-being in rural America
（Rural studies series）
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2011
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"Published in cooperation with the Rural Sociological Society" -- T.p
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Rural areas have been hit hard by economic restructuring. Traditionally male jobs with good pay and benefits (such as in manufacturing) have declined dramatically, only to be replaced with low-paying service-oriented jobs-jobs that do not offer benefits or wages sufficient to raise a family. Concurrently, rural areas have experienced changes in family life, namely an increase in women's labor force participation, a decline in married-couple families, and a rise in cohabitation and single-parent families. How have rural families coped with these social and economic changes? Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America documents the intertwined changes in employment and family and explores the outcomes for family well-being in rural America. Here a multidisciplinary group of scholars examines the impacts of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Cynthia D. Anderson, Guangqing Chi, Alisha Coleman-Jensen, Katherine Jewsbury Conger, Nicole D. Forry, Deborah Roempke Graefe, Steven Michael Grice, Andrew Hahn, Debra Henderson, Eric B. Jensen, Leif Jensen, Marlene Lee, Daniel T. Lichter, Elaine McCrate, Diane K. McLaughlin, Margaret K. Nelson, Domenico Parisi, Liliokanaio Peaslee, Jed Pressgrove, Jennifer Sherman, Anastasia Snyder, Susan K. Walker, and Chih-Yuan Weng.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Foreword
Cynthia "Mil" Duncan
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kristin E. Smith and Ann Tickamyer
Section 1: Changing Economic Opportunities and Changing Roles
1 Rural Economic Restructuring: Implications for Children, Youth, and Families
Daniel T. Lichter and Deborah Roempke Graefe
2 Employment Hardship Among Rural Men
Leif Jensen and Eric B. Jensen
3 Changing Roles: Women and Work in Rural America
Kristin E. Smith
4 Men Without Sawmills: Job Loss and Gender Identity in Rural America
Jennifer Sherman
Section 2: Family Change, Economic Hardship, and Family Adaptive Strategies
5 Economic Restructuring and Family Structure Change, 1980 to 2000: A Focus on Female-Headed Families with Children
Diane K. McLaughlin and Alisha J. Coleman-Jensen
6 Patterns of Family Formation and Dissolution in Rural America and Implications for Well-Being
Anastasia Snyder
7 Job Characteristics and Economic Survival Strategies: The Effect of Economic Restructuring and Marital Status in a Rural County
Margaret K. Nelson
8 Economic Hardship, Parenting, and Family Stability in a Cohort of Rural Adolescents
Katherine Jewsbury Conger
Section 3: Low-Wage Employment
9 Parents' Work Time in Rural America: The Growth of Irregular Schedules
Elaine McCrate
10 Low-Wage Employment Among Minority Women in Nonmetropolitan Areas: A Decomposition Analysis
Marlene Lee
11 Regional Variation of Women in Low-Wage Work Across Rural Communities
Cynthia D. Anderson and Chih-Yuan Weng
Section 4: Work and Family Policy
12 Strengthening Rural Communities Through Investment in Youth Education, Employment, and Training
Liliokanaio Peaslee and Andrew Hahn
13 Child Care in Rural America
Nicole D. Forry and Susan K. Walker
14 Health Insurance in Rural America
Deborah Roempke Graefe
15 Livelihood Practices in the Shadow of Welfare Reform
Ann Tickamyer and Debra Henderson
16 Poverty, Work, and the Local Environment: TANF and EITC
Domenico Parisi, Steven Michael Grice, Guangqing Chi, and Jed Pressgrove
Conclusions
Ann Tickamyer and Kristin E. Smith
References
List of Contributors
Index
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