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agricultural policy analysis
Allegany County
Author_Janet M. Fitchen
Bed Utilization Rate
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Chenango County
Community Action Agency
community resilience
County Health Department
Delaware County
demographic shifts
environmental justice
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Farm Crisis
Farm Loss
farm survival
Head Lice
Informal Social
Intermunicipal Cooperation
LLRW
LLRW Facility
New York's low-level radioactive wastes
Non-farm Rural Economy
Nonfarm Economy
Nonfarm Rural Economy
Prison Jobs
Rural America
rural community adaptation strategies
rural community life
rural economic transformation
rural sociology
State DEC
Town Hall
Trailer Park
Tug Hill
WIC Clinic
World's Largest Urban Areas
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780367003425
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 147 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rural America as a place and a way of life is undergoing major transformation. The farm crisis and the decline of manufacturing dealt a double blow to the rural economy in the 1980s. Rural communities continue to lose farms, factories, and young people. Rural lands are increasingly being sought as places for vacation homes, state prisons, and waste dumps. Rural people are ambivalent about new residents and activities that are coming in and unsure of their own rural identity. Old assumptions about rural life and rural community are now open to question. Based on years of field observations and hundreds of interviews in fifteen rural counties in upstate New York, Fitchen's book explores these interconnected changes. It describes the financial stress in dairy farming and the efforts families made to hold onto their farms. It records the stunned disbelief and difficult adjustment of rural factory workers and small communities as local plants shut down. The author chronicles the struggles of communities plagued by toxic chemicals in their drinking water and of young families slipping farther into poverty. She reports on some communities that are campaigning to "win" a state prison and others that are protesting against a proposed radioactive waste dump. The book illustrates the persistence of rural ingenuity and determination but argues that these alone cannot solve the problems of rural America. A well-informed federal and state commitment is necessary. With policies and programs appropriate for rural situations, most communities could adapt creatively to the changes, integrate around a new rural identity, and survive into the twenty-first century as enduring social settings for their residents.
Janet M. Fitchen With illustrations by Sandra Rosenzweig Gittelman.
