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Population Change and Rural Society

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. William A. Kandel

    1. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, USA

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  2. David L. Brown

    1. Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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  • A unique focus on rural demography and the interaction between population dynamics and local social and economic change.
  • All chapters report original research by acknowledged experts in rural social science
  • Interdisciplinary and multi-regional
  • Organized around four critical themes illustrated by multiple case studies
  • The first volume on rural population that exploits data from Census 2000

Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 16)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Case Studies of Population and Society in Different Rural Regions

    1. Poverty and Income Inequality in Appalachia

      • Elgin Mannion, Dwight B. Billings
      Pages 357-379

    2. Welfare Reform Amidst Chronic Poverty in the Mississippi Delta

      • M. A. Lee, Joachim Singelmann
      Pages 381-403

  2. New Analytic Directions and Policy Implications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 405-405
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    2. Explorations in Spatial Demography

      • Paul R. Voss, Katherine J. Curtis White, Roger B. Hammer
      Pages 407-429

    3. Policy Implications of Rural Demographic Change

      • Leslie A. Whitener
      Pages 431-447

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 449-468
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About this book

CALVIN L. BEALE In considering how to introduce the subject of rural population change in st the 21 Century, I ?nd myself re?ecting on my own experience as a demographer for the U. S. Department of Agriculture. When I arrived at the Department, the post-World War II modernization of farming was well under way. Each year, my colleague Gladys Bowles and I had the unpopular task of announcing how much the farm population had decreased in the prior year. It was hard to say that the phenomenon was someone’s fault. Dramatic reductions in labor requirements per unit of agricultural output were occurring everywhere and not just in the United States. But politically, blame had to be assigned, and whichever political party was not in the White House was certain to place the blame squarely on the current administration. The demographic consequences of this trend were major. In a 22-year period from 1941 to 1962, the net loss of farm population from migration and cessation of farming averaged over a million people per year. It took eight years after the war before an administration was willing to begin to talk about the need to diversify rural employment. By that time, farm residents had already become a minority of rural people. However, well into the 1970s, I continued to receive inquiries from people who still equated rural with farm or who could not envision what rural-nonfarm people did for a living.

Editors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, USA

    William A. Kandel

  • Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    David L. Brown

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