Communities of Work Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts 1st Edition by William W Falk, Michael D Schulman, Ann R Tickamyer ISBN 0896802345 9780896802346

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ISBN 10: 0896802345

ISBN 13: 9780896802346 

Author: William W. Falk; Michael D. Schulman; Ann R. Tickamyer

The image of rural America portrayed in this illuminating study is one that is vibrant, regionally varied, and sometimes heroic. Communities of Work focuses on the ways in which rural people and places are affected by political, social, and economic forces far outside their control and how they sustain themselves and their communities in response.

Bringing together the two fundamental concepts of community–where the relationships and practices of daily life occur–and work, in which an elementary exchange occurs, Communities of Work bridges several fields of study. Presented here is the contextual and embedded nature of social relations and the complexity involved in understanding them. Through the use of multiple case studies, the authors apply diverse theories and methods in seeking an integrated outcome, one captured by “communities of work.”

Beginning with a description of the broad changes in work and economic activities across the United States, ranging from the Ohio River Valley to a western boomtown, the book shifts its focus to the interplay of work, family, and local networks in time and place. Activities range from fishing in the Mississippi Delta to farming and family life in the Midwest. The authors then highlight how rural people and places respond to extra-local, increasingly global forces in settings as diverse as rural South Carolina and Wisconsin.

A certain communitarian theme runs through Communities of Work. It is about people and communities not merely reacting, but instead responding in ways that reflect their local culture, while being cognizant of the larger world within which they live.

Table of contents:

Part I: Region, Work, and Restructuring: Structural Processes and Trends

1. Old Industrial Regions and the Political Economy of Development: The Ohio River Valley
2. Place, Race, and State: Sustaining the Textile Security Zone in a Changing Southern Labor Market
3. Meat Processing in Rural America: Economic Powerhouse or Problem?
4. Socioeconomic Trends in Mining-Dependent Counties in Appalachia
5. From Extraction to Amenities: Restructuring and (In)Conspicuous Consumption in Missoula, Montana

Part II: Work and Community: Ethnic, Racial, and Regional Embeddedness
6. Troubled Waters or Business as Usual? Ethnicity, Social Capital, and Community in the Louisiana Oyster Fishery
7. Identity of Self and Others through Work: A Life of Commercial Fishing in the Mississippi Delta
8. Sense of Place and Rural Restructuring: Lessons from the Low Country
9. Housing Labor’s Unrest: Economic Restructuring and the Social Production of Scale
10. Hogs and Citizens: A Report from the North Carolina Front
11. Does Welfare to Work Work? Rural Employers Comment

Part III: Reaction and Resistance: Survival Strategies of Rural People
12. The Bus from Hell Hole Swamp: Black Women in the Hospitality Industry
13. Stretched to Their Limits: Rural Nonfarm Mothers and the “New” Rural Economy
14. Earning a Living and Building a Life: Income-Generating and Income-Saving Strategies of Rural Wisconsin Families
15. Livelihood Strategies of Farmers in Puerto Rico’s Central Region: Survival in the Context of Economic Restructuring and Policy Change
16. Older Workers and Retirement in Rural Contexts
17. The Social and Economic Context of Informal Work
18. Empirical Realities, Theoretical Lessons, and Political Implications of Communities of Work: What Have We Learned?

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