American Guestworkers

David Griffith

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• The H-2 program, originally based in Florida, is the longest running labor-importation program in the country. Over the course of a quarter-century of... Lees meer

Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural Studies
• Rural areas have been hit hard by economic restructuring. Traditionally male jobs with good pay and benefits (such as in manufacturing) have declined ... Lees meer

Country Boys

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Rural masculinity is hardly a typical topic for a book. There is something unexpected, faintly disturbing, even humorous about investigating that whic... Lees meer

Rural Education for the Twenty-First Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural Studies
• Rural places and their schools have a long history of community-based traditions, political and cultural conservatism, and intergenerational construct... Lees meer

Opening Windows Onto Hidden Lives

Julie N Zimmerman, Olaf F Larson

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to ... Lees meer

California Dreaming

Paul J P Sandul

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• At the turn of the 20th century, the California dream was a suburban ideal where life on the farm was exceptional. Agrarian virtue existed alongside g... Lees meer

Rural Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• "One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the env... Lees meer

Rural America in a Globalizing World

Elizabeth Ransom

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• This fourth Rural Sociological Society decennial volume provides advanced policy scholarship on rural North America during the 2010's, closely reflect... Lees meer

Governing the Wind Energy Commons

Keith Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to community well-being rather than corporate profit. Through case studies of a North Dakota w... Lees meer

Contradictions of Neoliberal Agri-Food

Kae Sekine, Alessandro Bonanno

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have bee... Lees meer

Community Effects of Leadership Development Education

Kenneth Pigg, Stephen Gasteyer, Kenneth Martin, Godwin Apaliyah, Kari Keating

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural Studies
• Community leadership development programmes are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. This volume presents the results o... Lees meer

The Estuary's Gift

David Griffith

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• A coastal region's oldest inhabitants, particularly families of watermen and commercial fishers, often possess the deepest knowledge about a region an... Lees meer

Sociology in Government

Olaf F Larson

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• From 1919 through 1953, the U.S. Department of Agriculture housed the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life--the first unit within the federal go... Lees meer

Farming for Us All

Michael Mayerfeld Bell

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• It is easy to feel overwhelmed and depressed by all the threats facing modern agriculture--threats to the environment, to the health and safety of our... Lees meer

Empty Fields, Empty Promises

Loka Ashwood, Aimee Imlay, Lindsay Kuehn, Allen Franco, Danielle Diamond

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to lim... Lees meer

Together at the Table

Patricia Allen

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Everywhere you look people are more aware of what they eat and where their food comes from. In a cafeteria in Los Angeles, children make their lunchti... Lees meer

Economic Restructuring and Family Well-Being in Rural America

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Rural areas have been hit hard by economic restructuring. Traditionally male jobs with good pay and benefits (such as in manufacturing) have declined ... Lees meer

Governing the Wind Energy Commons

Keith A Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural Studies
• Asks whether revenue generated by wind power can be put to community well-being rather than corporate profit. Keith Taylor looks to the promising exam... Lees meer

Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty

Kathleen Pickering, Mark H Harvey, Gene F Summers, David Mushinski

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Since the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was enacted, policy makers, agency administrators, community activis... Lees meer

Community Effects of Leadership Development Education

Kenneth Pigg

• Paperback | Engels | Rural Studies
• Community leadership development programmes are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. This volume presents the results o... Lees meer

Empty Fields, Empty Promises

Loka Ashwood, Aimee Imlay, Lindsay Kuehn

• Hardcover | Engels | Rural Studies
• The right to farm is essential to everyone's survival. Since the late 1970s, states across the nation have adopted so-called right-to-farm laws to lim... Lees meer