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Worlds apart : poverty and politics in rural America /
First published in 1999, Worlds Apart examined the nature of poverty through the stories of real people in three remote rural areas of the United States: New England, Appalachia, and the Mississippi Delta. In this new edition, Duncan returns to her original research, interviewing some of the same pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven ; London :
Yale University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Blackwell: rigid classes and corrupt politics in Appalachia's coal fields : "Good rich people" and "bad poor people" ; Blackwell yesterday: developing Appalachia's coal fields ; The families that run things ; The politics of work in the mountains ; Blackwell's have-nots" scratching a living up the hollows ; Blackwell's haves: the good life on Redbud Hill ; Bringing change to Blackwell ; Blackwell twenty years later: hunkering down with family
- Dahlia: racial segregation and planter control in the Mississippi Delta : Dahlia's two social worlds ; Work in Dahlia: creating and maintaining the plantation world ; Class and caste in the Delta ; White planters, politicians, and shopkeepers ; Leadership in the Black community: the old and the new "Toms" ; Dahlia twenty years later: new jobs and new politics / with Gemma Buckley
- Gray Mountain: equality and civic involvement in northern New England : A blue-collar middle-class mill town ; Participation and investment in the 1990s ; The big middle "continuum" ; Difficult times ahead: putting civic culture to the test ; Gray Mountain twenty years later: holding on to a blue-collar community
- Social change and social policy : Cultural and structural causes of persistent poverty ; Class and politics in rural communities ; Equality, democracy, and social change ; Policies to encourage mobility and build civic culture ; Policy for poor people in poor places
- Appendix : Table I. Social and economic indicators for Blackwell, Dahlia, and Gray Mountain ; Table II. Social and economic indicators for Central Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, Northern New England, and the United States ; Table II. Explanatory notes / Jessica A. Carson
- A comparison between chronically poor and transitioning rural counties / Jessica Ulrich-Schad.