Economic restructuring and family well-being in rural America
"A compilation of policy-relevant research by a multidisciplinary group of scholars on the state of families in rural America in the twenty-first century. Examines the impact of economic restructuring on rural Americans and provides policy recommendations for addressing the challenges they face"--Pr...
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University Park, Penn. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Rural studies series (University Park, Pa.)
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Table of Contents:
- Changing economic opportunities and changing roles
- Rural economic restructuring : implications for children, youth, and families / Daniel T. Lichter, Deborah Roempke Graefe
- Employment hardship among rural men / Leif Jensen, Eric B. Jensen
- Changing roles : women and work in rural America / Kristin E. Smith
- Men without sawmills : job loss and gender identity in rural America / Jennifer Sherman
- Family change, economic hardship, and family adaptive strategies
- Economic restructuring and family structure change, 1980 to 2000 : a focus on female-headed families with children / Diane K. McLaughlin, Alisha J. Coleman-Jensen
- Patterns of family formation and dissolution in rural America and implications for well-being / Anastasia Snyder
- Job characteristics and economic survival strategies : the effect of economic restructuring and marital status in a rural county / Margaret K. Nelson
- Economic hardship, parenting, and family stability in a cohort of rural adolescents / Katherine Jewsbury Conger
- Low-wage employment
- Parents' work time in rural America : the growth of irregular schedules / Elaine McCrate
- Low-wage employment among minority women in nonmetropolitan areas : a decomposition analysis / Marlene Lee
- Regional variation of women in low-wage work across rural communities / Cynthia D. Anderson, Chih-Yuan Weng
- Work and family policy
- Strengthening rural communities through investment in youth education
- Employment, and training / Liliokanaio Peaslee, Andrew Hahn
- Child care in rural America / Nicole D. Forry, Susan K. Walker
- Health insurance in rural America / Deborah Roempke Graefe
- Livelihood practices in the shadow of welfare reform / Ann Tickamyer, Debra Henderson
- Poverty, work, and the local environment : TANF and EITC / Domenico Parisi, Steven Michael Grice, Guangqing Chi, Jed Pressgrove
- Conclusions / Ann Tickamyer, Kristin E. Smith.
