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Population Change and Rural SocietyChanging Livelihoods in Rural America

Population Change and Rural Society: Changing Livelihoods in Rural America CHAPTER 4 ALEXANDER C. VIAS AND PETER B. NELSON INTRODUCTION Globalization and economic restructuring have profoundly affected the rural economy over the past 30 years (Glasmeier & Conroy, 1994). As noted in the introductory chapter, the notion of a rural economy reliant on a stable farming sector has been outmoded for decades. Today, fewer than one in 10 people living in rural America has a job directly related to farming. New competitive pressures will continue to change the rural economy and have significant impacts on the livelihoods of rural Americans, as workers in virtually all industries scramble to maintain a reasonable and sustainable standard of living in an increasingly volatile global market. At the same time, the ways in which globalization and economic restructuring play out both across geographic regions and within economic sectors is far from uniform. Impacts of these macro-scale processes on rural livelihoods merit examination at various levels of analysis. The nature of rural economic change over the past few decades is an active topic of research (Barkley, 1993; Falk & Lobao, 2003; Galston & Baehler, 1995; McGranahan, 2003), as are the linkages between economic, demographic and social change (Castle, 1995; Fuguitt et al., 1989). However, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Population Change and Rural SocietyChanging Livelihoods in Rural America

Part of the The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis Book Series (volume 16)
Editors: Kandel, William A.; Brown, David L.
Vias, Alexander C.; Nelson, Peter B.
Population Change and Rural Society — Jan 1, 2006
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2006
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978-1-4020-3911-9
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75 –102
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10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_4
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CHAPTER 4 ALEXANDER C. VIAS AND PETER B. NELSON INTRODUCTION Globalization and economic restructuring have profoundly affected the rural economy over the past 30 years (Glasmeier & Conroy, 1994). As noted in the introductory chapter, the notion of a rural economy reliant on a stable farming sector has been outmoded for decades. Today, fewer than one in 10 people living in rural America has a job directly related to farming. New competitive pressures will continue to change the rural economy and have significant impacts on the livelihoods of rural Americans, as workers in virtually all industries scramble to maintain a reasonable and sustainable standard of living in an increasingly volatile global market. At the same time, the ways in which globalization and economic restructuring play out both across geographic regions and within economic sectors is far from uniform. Impacts of these macro-scale processes on rural livelihoods merit examination at various levels of analysis. The nature of rural economic change over the past few decades is an active topic of research (Barkley, 1993; Falk & Lobao, 2003; Galston & Baehler, 1995; McGranahan, 2003), as are the linkages between economic, demographic and social change (Castle, 1995; Fuguitt et al., 1989). However,

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: Total Employment; Retail Trade; Consumer Service; Rural Economy; Change Livelihood

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