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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davidson, Osha Gray
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1996.
Edition:Expanded ed.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Decline and denial
  • Roots of the farm crisis
  • The rise of the rural ghetto
  • Poverty and social disintegration
  • The dying of the light
  • The growth of hate groups
  • The second wave
  • What future, what hope?

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