Broken heartland : the rise of America's rural ghetto /

Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davidson, Osha Gray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1996.
Edición:Expanded ed.
Temas:
1980-2020
Rural poor > United States.
Farmers > United States > Social conditions.
Pauvres en milieu rural > États-Unis.
Agriculteurs > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > General.
Farmers > Social conditions.
Rural conditions.
Rural poor.
Social conditions
Armut
Ländlicher Raum
Desenvolvimento rural > Estados unidos.
Pobreza rural > Estados unidos.
Campesinato (condições sociais) > Estados unidos.
United States > Rural conditions.
United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020.
United States.
USA.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell by 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the dec.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
ISBN:1587290413
9781587290411

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