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Denmark: a social laboratory : independent farmers and co-operatives, folk high-schools, the changing village, the development of social welfare in town and country /
Denmark: A Social Laboratory explores the history of the agricultural sector in Denmark. This is the first part in a series of books on "Rural Development and Changing Countries of the World.₄ The book is organized into two parts. Part I provides an overview of the agricultural industry in Denm...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Pergamon,
1969.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Denmark: A Social Laboratory; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; THE INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF WRITERS; PREFACES; EDITORIAL; INTRODUCTION; PART I: RURAL DENMARK AS A SOCIAL LABORATORY; A COMMENT ON THE WORKS OF ART; SECTION I: THE BACKGROUND; Independent Farmers Who Co-operate; National Features; Geographic Setting; The Importance of Agriculture; A Summary of Danish History until the Great Agricultural Reforms; SECTION II: Response to Internal Problems; Tenancy; Securing Credit; Democracy; The Small-holder; Increasing Agricultural Production; Land Distribution.
- Future of the Small-holderSECTION III: Farmers' Co-operation; Response to Overseas Competition; Co-operative Dairy Societies; Co-operative Milk Recording Societies; Co-operative Bacon Factories; Co-operative Purchasing Societies; Co-operative Consumers' Societies and the Co-operative Wholesale; Co-operative Export Societies; Co-operative Bank; Development in Co-operation during and after the Second World War; Characteristic Features of Danish Farmers' Co-operation; Limitations and Achievements of the Farmers' Co-operation; Reasons for Danish Rural Co-operation.
- SECTION IV: The Folk High Schools for Young AdultsResponse to the Need for an Education for Life; N.F.S. Grundtvig; Folkehojskolen; The Folk High School Takes Root in the Nation; Free Schools and Continuation Boarding Schools; Folk High Schools with a Special Trend; General Trends; The International Trend in Danish Education; The Situation in the School Year 1964-65; The Folk High Schools and the State; SECTION V: Vocational Training; The Agricultural Schools; Vocational Youth Work; Agricultural Advisers; Domestic Schools; Statistics re Adult Education in Denmark.
- PART II: A Danish Village in Past and PresentSECTION I: In the Distant Past; The Plough Fellowship; Rural Life under Tenancy; The Changing Village; SECTION II: On the Threshold of the Industrial Age, and Onwards; An Old Farm; The Farm Labourer's House; Housing Conditions in the Motor Age; Demonstration Farms; Work; Festive Seasons; Leisure; Social Life; Politics; A Political Cell; Class Distinction; The Two Sexes; Religion; The Way Ahead; Back to the Village; SECTION III: Social Legislation; The Influence of the Towns; A Glimpse of Copenhagen; The Development of Social Legislation.
- Another Glimpse of CopenhagenCopenhagen Reaching the Village; SECTION IV: Structural Features in the Changing Village; Local Administration; The Co-operative Store; The Co-operative Dairy; A Peep at Conditions ina Jutland Village Nowalays; The Church in the Rural Villages in Past and Present; The School; The Rural Schoolmaster; Urban Schools; Grundtvigians; Face to Face with a Principal in his Folk High School; A Day at the Folk High School; Fruits of the Folk High School in the Villages; An Englishman's, a Russian's and Indians' Impressions of Rural Life in Jutland in Past and Precent1.