Welfare Reform in Rural Places: Comparative Perspectives (Research in Rural Sociology and Development) (Research in Rural Sociology Development) ebook

by Paul Milbourne,Terry Marsden

Paul Milbourne Terry Marsden Social Sciences English

Rural development is what peasants do. The path they have chosen . Consequently, in this first chapter we describe the main aim of the book as well as how the subsequent chapters contribute to fulfill this quest.

Rural development is what peasants do. The path they have chosen reveals scenery so different from modernization. If we regard development as a social change, or a cross with influential meanings, we could understand rural development as peasants' victories over their predicament. In this sense, the most important part in rural development or rural change is peasants - their conditions and their feelings. Consequently, in this first chapter we describe the main aim of the book as well as how the subsequent chapters contribute to fulfill this quest outlining the structure of the book.

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Sociology and Public Policy.

Recent papers in Rural Sociology/ Rural Development

Recent papers in Rural Sociology/ Rural Development.

It is an active academic field in much of the world, originating in the United States in the 1910s with close ties to the national Department of Agriculture and land-grant university colleges of agriculture.

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 developed countries. The book brings together recent research from Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand to provide the seminal international book on rural welfare. As well as being international in its outlook, it provides an inter-disciplinary focus on rural welfare by including contributors from sociology, human geography, social policy and social anthropology. The definition of welfare used within the book is broad, encompassing overarching welfare and workfare agendas, as well as more specific welfare policy areas such as anti-poverty, health, housing, social security, social work and education.