Cynthia Duncan

Rural Poverty in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nine million people in the United States live in rural poverty. This large segment of the population has generally been overlooked even as considerable attention, and social conscience, is directed to the alleviation of urban poverty. This timely, needed volume focuses on poor, rural people in poor, rural settings. Rural poverty is not confined to one section of the country or to one ethnic group. It is a national problem and the resolution of hidden America's persistent economic plight will now depend on a better understanding of who is poor and why. The clear, authoritative chapters describe the declining opportunities available in rural areas--including the social, educational, and political factors that so often pose barriers to economic advancement. Part One provides a comprehensive description of the poor population and an analysis of rural poverty's underlying dynamics. Low wages, the character of rural labor markets, and chronic inter-generational poverty are carefully considered to lay the basis for formulating sound responses. Part Two looks at the condition of particular groups suffering poverty in rural areas. These include African-Americans, Appalchians, Native Americans, and migrant workers. It addresses the special problems of those who, although in relatively prosperous rural areas, live at or below the poverty level. Part Three looks to successful lessons from the past and evaluates current steps that may be taken to frame policy recommendations that will mitigate present stress, foster improved opportunities, and open a better life to America's rural poor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780865690141
• ISBN-10: 0865690146
• Artikelnr.: 50759725

Autorenporträt

CYNTHIA M. DUNCAN is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. She researches and writes extensively on poverty in rural America, with special interest in Appalachia, the Delta, and northern New England.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Susan E. Sechler Introduction: Poverty in Rural America by
Cynthia M. Duncan and Stephen Sweet The Dynamics of Poverty and Mobility in
Rural America Overview of the Rural Poor in the 1980s by Kenneth L. Deavers
and Robert A. Hoppe The Growing Problem of Low Earnings in Rural Areas by
Lucy Gorham The Working Poor in Rural Labor Markets: The Example of the
Southeastern United States by Ann R. Tickmayer Long-Term Poverty in Rural
Areas by Terry K. Adams and Greg J. Duncan Poor People and Poor Places
Race, Gender, and Poverty in the Rural South: African American Single
Mothers by Bonnie Thornton Dill and Bruce B. Williams Persistent Poverty in
Appalachia: Scarce Work and Rigid Stratification by Cynthia M. Duncan
Migrant Farm Workers by Doris P. Slesinger and Max J. Pfeffer American
Indians and Economic Poverty by C. Matthew Snipp and Gene F. Summers Rural
Poverty in the Northeast: The Case of Upstate New York by Janet M. Fitchen
The New Poor in Midwestern Farming Communities by Cornelia Butler Flora
Policies for the Rural Poor Modernization and the Rural Poor: Some Lessons
from History by Alice O'Connor Empowerment and Rural Poverty by Steve
Suitts Policies to Alleviate Rural Poverty by Robert Greenstein and Isaac
Shapiro References Index