Broken heartland : the rise of America's rural ghetto /
Davidson, Osha Gray.
Broken heartland : the rise of America's rural ghetto / Osha Gray Davidson. - Expanded ed. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
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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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 economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the dec.
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1587290413 9781587290411
22573/ctt20gqd77 JSTOR
Since 1980
Rural poor--United States.
Farmers--Social conditions.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Essays.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General
Farmers--Social conditions.
Rural conditions.
Rural poor.
Social conditions
Armut
Ländlicher Raum
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Conditions.
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HN59.2 / .D35 1996eb
307.3/366/0973
HN59.2.D35 / 1996
Broken heartland : the rise of America's rural ghetto / Osha Gray Davidson. - Expanded ed. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1996. - 1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
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?
Use copy
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 economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the dec.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
1587290413 9781587290411
22573/ctt20gqd77 JSTOR
Since 1980
Rural poor--United States.
Farmers--Social conditions.--United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Essays.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General
Farmers--Social conditions.
Rural conditions.
Rural poor.
Social conditions
Armut
Ländlicher Raum
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Conditions.
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.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HN59.2 / .D35 1996eb
307.3/366/0973
HN59.2.D35 / 1996