Human resource dimensions of rural development. [Monograph]

Book · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:6236344

Marshall, R ^[1]

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1. ed.

The papers in this volume are concerned with rural development with emphasis on problems of low-income groups. The basic problem of rural America has been a long-run trend toward displacement of people from agriculture, many of whom have not been prepared by education, training, or experience for nonfarm employment. Those who were prepared and moved to urban areas prospered, while those who were not became low-wage urban workers or remained in rural areas, either as agricultural workers, small farmers, or rural nonfarm workers. The rural population has remained fairly constant at around 50 million since 1910 because the rural nonfarm population has grown to offset the decline in the farm population. Following this introductory chapter by Ray Marshall, in Chapter II, Stephen McDonald explores the economic factors in farm outmigration. In Chapter III, Virgil Christian and Adam Peplasis discuss Farm size and the displacement of farm families in southern agriculture. In Chapter IV, Thomas Till analyzes the nature and extent of nonmetropolitan industrialization, especially in the South. In Chapter V, James Walker analyzes economic growth, poverty, and race in the nonmetropolitan deep South. niles Hansen, in Chapter VI, analyses growth centers, human resources and rural development. In the final chapter, these rural development issues are summarized and Ray Marshall's own conclusions and policy recommendations are presented. (MCW)

• OSTI ID: 6236344
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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