Communities of Work

by Falk, William W.; Schulman, Michael D.; Tickamyer, Ann R.

• ISBN13: 9780896802346
• ISBN10: 0896802345
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
INTRODUCTION Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts	xi
William W. Falk, Michael D. Schulman, and Ann R. Tickamyer
Part I Region, Work, and Restructuring: Structural Processes and Trends
CHAPTER ONE Old Industrial Regions and the Political Economy of Development: The Ohio River Valley	3	(28)
Linda Lobao, Lawrence A. Brown, and Jon Moore
CHAPTER TWO Place, Race, and State: Sustaining the Textile Security Zone in a Changing Southern Labor Market	31	(24)
Cynthia D. Anderson, Michael D. Schulman, and Philip Wood
CHAPTER THREE Meat Processing in Rural America: Economic Powerhouse or Problem?	55	(24)
Mark S. Henry, Mark R. Drabenstott, and Kristin Mitchell
CHAPTER FOUR Socioeconomic Trends in Mining-Dependent Counties in Appalachia	79	(25)
Melissa Latimer and F. Carson Mencken
CHAPTER FIVE From Extraction to Amenities: Restructuring and (In)Conspicuous Consumption in Missoula, Montana	104	(27)
W. Richard Goe, Sean A. Noonan, and Sherry Thurston
Part II Work and Community: Ethnic, Racial, and Regional Embeddedness
CHAPTER SIX Troubled Waters or Business as Usual? Ethnicity, Social Capital, and Community in the Louisiana Oyster Fishery	131	(26)
Forrest A. Deseran and Carl M. Riden
CHAPTER SEVEN Identity of Self and Others through Work: A Life of Commercial Fishing in the Mississippi Delta	157	(20)
Ralph B. Brown
CHAPTER EIGHT Sense of Place and Rural Restructuring: Lessons from the Low Country	177	(19)
William W. Falk
CHAPTER NINE Housing Labor's Unrest: Economic Restructuring and the Social Production of Scale	196	(23)
Jeff R. Crump
CHAPTER TEN Hogs and Citizens: A Report from the North Carolina Front	219	(21)
MaryBe McMillan and Michael D. Schulman
CHAPTER ELEVEN Does Welfare to Work Work? Rural Employers Comment	240	(27)
Julie White, Ann R. Tickamyer, Debra A. Henderson, and Barry Tadlock
Part III Reaction and Resistance: Survival Strategies of Rural People
CHAPTER TWELVE The Bus from Hell Hole Swamp: Black Women in the Hospitality Industry	267	(24)
Susan E. Webb
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Stretched to Their Limits: Rural Nonfarm Mothers and the "New" Rural Economy	291	(25)
Cynthia Struthers and Janet Bokemeier
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Earning a Living and Building a Life: Income-Generating and Income-Saving Strategies of Rural Wisconsin Families	316	(23)
Ann Ziebarth and Leann Tigges
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Livelihood Strategies of Farmers in Puerto Rico's Central Region: Survival in the Context of Economic Restructuring and Policy Change	339	(27)
Viviana Carro-Figueroa and Gwyndolyn J. Weathers
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Older Workers and Retirement in Rural Contexts	366	(28)
Nina Glasgow and Alan Barton
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Social and Economic Context of Informal Work	394	(25)
Ann R. Tickamyer and Teresa A. Wood
Empirical Realities, Theoretical Lessons, and Political Implications of Communities of Work: What Have We Learned?	419	(11)
Contributors	430	(7)
Index	437