Preface
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Rural America in a Globalizing World:and#160; Introduction and Overview
Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen and Elizabeth Ransom
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Part I Changing Structure of Agriculture
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Agriculture and Food in the 2010s, Alessandro Bonanno
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1. Economic Concentration in the Agrifood System: Impacts on Rural Communities and Emerging Responses
Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, William D. Heffernan
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2. The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon
Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh
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3. Land Ownership in American Agriculture
Douglas Jackson-Smith and Peggy Petrzelka
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4. Mexican-born Farmworkers in U.S. Agriculture
Eric B. Jensen
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5. Agricultural Technologies and the Structure of the North American Agrifood System
Leland L. Glenna and Christopher R. Henke
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6. Food Safety and Governance of the Agrifood System
Michelle R. Worosz and Diana Stewart
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7. Changing Animal Agriculture and the Issue of Farm Animal Welfare
Jeff Sharp and Dani Deemer
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8. Agrifood Movements: Diversity, Aims, and Limits
Clare Hinrichs and John Eshleman
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Part II Natural Resources and the Environment
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Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment, Louise Fortmann, Merrill Baker-Mand#233;dard and Alice Kelly
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9. Impacts of Climate Change on People and Communities of Rural America
Lois Wright Morton and Tom Rudel
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10. Contemporary Water Issues in Rural North America
Courtney G. Flint and Naomi Krogman
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11. Resource Dependency in Rural America: Continuities and Change
Richard S. Krannich, Brian Gentry, A.E. Luloff, and Peter G. Robinson
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12. The Gulf: Americaand#8217;s Third Coast
Robert Gramling and Shirley Laska
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13. Biofuels and Rural Communities: Promises, Pitfalls and Uneven Social and Environmental Impacts
Theresa Selfa and Carmen Bain
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14. New Natural Gas Development and Rural Communities: Key Issues and Research Priorities
Abby Kinchy, Simona Perry, Danielle Rhubart, Richard Stedman, Kathryn Brasier, and Jeffrey Jacquet
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15. Got Coal? The High Cost of Coal on Mining-Dependent Communities in Appalachia and the West
Suzanne E. Tallichet
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Part III Population Change in Rural North America
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Rural Population Change in Social Context, David L. Brown
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16. Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: 2000 to 2010
Kenneth M. Johnson
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17. Population Shifts Across U.S. Nonmetropolitan Regions
John Cromartie and Timothy S. Parker
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18. Rural Families and Households and the Decline of Traditional Structure
Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly
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19. Children and Youth in Rural America
Diane K. McLaughlin and Carla Shoff
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20. Concentrations of the Elderly in Rural America: Patterns, Processes and Outcomes in a Neoliberal World
Peter B. Nelson
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21. New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s
Martha Crowley and Kim Ebert
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Part IV Diversity in Rural America
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality in Rural America, Carolyn Sachs
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22. The Status of African Americans in the Rural United States
John J. Green
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23. Hispanic Immigration, Global Competition, and the Dairy Industry in Rural Communities
J.D. Wulfhorst, Priscilla Salant, Leigh A. Bernacchi, Stephanie L. Kane, Philip Watson, and Erinn Cruz
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24. Native Nations in a Changing Global Economy
Sarah Dewees
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25. The Past is the Present: Gender and the Status of Rural Women
Cynthia B. Struthers
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26. Rolling in the Hay: The Rural as Sexual Space
Julie C. Keller and Michael M. Bell
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27. Rural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Underutilized Safety Net
Jennifer Sherman
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Part V Rural Economies, Community, and Quality of Life
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Economic Change, Structural Forces and Rural America: Shifting Fortunes across Communities, Linda Lobao
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28. Education and Schooling in Rural America
Kai A. Schafft and Catharine Biddle
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29. Work in Rural America in the Era of Globalization
Tim Slack
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30. Rural Entrepreneurship
Lori A. Dickes and Kenneth L. Robinson
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31. Community Organization and Mobilization in Rural America
Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora
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32. Community as Moral Proximity: Theorizing Community in a Global Economy
Todd L. Goodsell, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown
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33. Food Insecurity and Obesity in Rural America: Paradoxes of the Modern Agrifood System
Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney and Brett Wolff
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34. Thinking About Rural Health
E. Helen Berry
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35. Housing in Rural America
Katherine MacTavish, Ann Ziebarth, and Lance George