Dividing paradise : rural inequality and the diminishing American dream /

"Dividing Paradise tells the story of a rural American community whose economic growth resulted in increasing inequality and divisions between those who can and those who cannot achieve their rural visions of the American dream. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observation with indi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sherman, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Temas:
Equality > Washington (State) > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural
Equality.
Rural conditions.
Washington (State) > Rural conditions > Case studies.
Washington (État) > Conditions rurales > Études de cas.
Washington (State)
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Discovering paradise
  • Rural deindustrialization, decline, and rebirth
  • Changing times in paradise
  • Living the dream : newcomers making it work in paradise
  • Trouble in paradise : old-timers' struggles to survive
  • "Certain circles" : the deepening divide
  • Paradise lost : making sense of community changes and the elusive American dream
  • Crossing the divide and reclaiming the dream
  • Epilogue: the rural dream in the Pandemic's wake.

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