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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Emery N. Castle, Society Task Force, Rural Poverty, Gene F Society Rural Poverty Summers, Rural Sociological Society, Rural Sociological Society, Rural Sociological Society, Gene F Summers
• Assisted by: Emery N. Castle (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367282646
• ISBN: 978-0-367-28264-6
• No. of pages: 379
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General