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1 online resource (246 pages) |
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Research in Rural Sociology and Development, 15 ; v. v. 15 |
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Research in Rural Sociology and Development, 15
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| Contents |
Front cover; Welfare reform in rural places: Comparative perspectives; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Chapter 1. Scaling and spacing welfare reform: making sense of welfare in rural places; Chapter 2. Impacts of welfare reform on rural people and places in the United States; Chapter 3. Devolution, social exclusion, and spatial inequality in U.S. welfare provision; Chapter 4. Color-blind welfare reform or new cultural racismquest Evidence from rural Mexican- and Native-American communities; Chapter 5. Social welfare policies and rural Canada |
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Chapter 6. Placing welfare in rural EnglandChapter 7. Rural welfare to work in Wales: young people's experiences; Chapter 8. Giving up farming and the welfare state restructuration in Finland; Chapter 9. Shifting welfare, shifting people: rural development, housing and population mobility in Australia; Chapter 10. Australia's rural welfare policy: overlooked and demoralised; Chapter 11. School closures as breaches in the fabric of rural welfare: community perspectives from New Zealand |
| Summary |
Research on welfare has tended to focus on the national scale with relatively little attention given to the differential impacts of welfare restructuring in rural places and the difficulties faced by disadvantaged groups with limited provision of welfare services in many rural areas. This book seeks to significantly extend previous research work on the rural impacts of national welfare reform and position it in a broader context. "International Perspectives on Rural Welfare" provides a critical, comprehensive and comparative account of the rural dimensions of welfare in a number of d |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social sciences.
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social sciences.
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Social sciences
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781849509190 |
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1849509190 |
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