ENDANGERED SPACES, ENDURING PLACES : change, identity, and survival in rural america.: change, identity, and survival in rural america. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Fitchen, Janet M
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Rural America in a Time of Change; A Troubled Decade in Rural America; The Fast Pace of Change in the Late 1980s; Rural New York in a Time of Change; The Purposes and Plan of This Book; PART ONE THE FARM CRISIS AND ITS CHALLENGE TO RURAL COMMUNITY LIFE; 2 Dairy Farms in a Time of Change: Struggle for Survival; The Farming Way of Life; Background: The Farm Crisis and Dairy Farm Losses; Farms in Stress; Families in Stress; Strategies for Farm Survival; Strategies for Family Survival The Crisis Recedes-For Now3 Community Impacts: The Special Significance of Dairy Farm Losses; Impacts of the Farm Crisis on Community Economies; Social Impacts of Farm Financial Problems; The Deeper Impacts: Effects on Rural Identity; PART TWO SHIFTING NONFARM ECONOMIES; 4 Paradox in Rural Economies: Vigor and Vulnerability; A Case Illustration: Changes and Contradictions in the North Country; Changing Components of New York's Rural Economies; Rural Economic Indicators: A Mixed Picture; Vulnerability of Rural Manufacturing; 5 Plant Closings and Substitute Jobs: Labor Force for Sale Case Studies of Plant ClosingsCommon Threads and Implications; Job Creation: Shortchanged by New Jobs; Rural Employment Issues for the Future; PART THREE CHANGING RURAL POPULATIONS; 6 People and Places: Demographic Change and Local Response; Signs of the Times: Observations at a Rural County Fair; Overview of Recent Demographic Trends; Local Trends: Population Loss, Household Change, and Aging; Return Migration to Rural Communities; New Year-Round Residents; Land Development and the Nonresident Population; 7 Perceptions and Frictions: Problems in Accepting and Absorbing Newcomers The Mythic Rural Community: Perceptions of Stasis and StabilityThe City Comes to the Country; Blacks, Southerners, and ""Others Who Are Different; Stereotypes, Scapegoats, and Uneasiness with Change; PART FOUR WORSENING RURAL POVERTY; 8 Poverty in Rural Places: Patterns and Changes; Rural Poverty Through the 1980s: National and Statewide Trends; Portraits of Rural Poverty: Three Residential Patterns; Implications for Communities; 9 The Dynamics of Rural Impoverization: Causes and Processes; Inadequacies in Rural Employment; A Tighter Rural Housing Situation Instability and Insecurity of Family RelationshipsResidential Mobility Within and Between Rural Communities; In-migration of Poverty to Rural Communities: A National Trend?; A Complex, Troubled Situation in Some Communities; PART FIVE PROVIDING COMMUNITY SERVICES IN CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES; 10 Problems in Meeting Rural Service Needs; Consequences of a Cost-Effectiveness Model for Rural Services; Effects of Urban Service Delivery Trends on Rural Services; The Legacy of Outdated Rural Attitudes About Human Services; 11 Local Innovation and Cooperation; New Local Institutional Efforts
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ROUTLEDGE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume.)
• Subjects: 307.720973; Farm life -- New York (State); Rural poor -- New York (State); Community organization -- New York (State); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; New York (State) -- Rural conditions; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429033285; 0429033281; 9780429699047; 0429699042; 9780429719059; 0429719051; 9780429739064; 0429739060
• Related ISBNs: 0367003422; 9780367003425
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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