Changing rural social systems : adaptation and survival / edited by Nan. E. Johnson and Ching-li Wang.

Other author Johnson, Nan E.
Other author Wang, Ching-li, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoEast Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University, ©1997.
Descriptionx, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects
Sociology, Rural.
Sociology, Rural--Research.
Rural population--Cross-cultural studies.
Rural population--United States.
Rural development--Sociological aspects. --Cross-cultural studies.

Contents The poor in nonmetropolitan America / William P. O'Hare -- Mechanization in the western Upper Peninsula pulp-logging industry / Jon H. Rieger -- Development, women's work, and economic inequality in rural Taiwan / Rita S. Gallin -- Inequality and the emergence of nonfarm employment in Rwanda / Daniel C. Clay, Theobald Kampayana, and Jean Kayitsinga -- Social and economic transformation in a Greek farming village / George A. Daoutopoulos -- Recent population change in Michigan's metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas / Ching-li Wang -- The transmission of information regarding population change in a rural county / Richard W. Rathge -- Fatal farm accidents in Michigan: implications for research and policy / Nan E. Johnson -- Irish rural-urban migration: post-1960 changes / Damian F. Hannan -- Changing rural communities: reconstructing the local economy of a nonmetropolitan community / Marilyn W. Aronoff -- Social change and dress among the Kalabari of Nigeria / Joanne Bubolz Eicher -- The call of the sugar cane: agricultural change, cooperative-capitalism, and migrants in northwestern Uruguay / Gaston J. Labadie.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 96039877
ISBN0870134701 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HT421 .C36 1997 ✔ Available Place Hold