Dividing Paradise
Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream
How rural areas have become uneven proving grounds for the American Dream Late-stage capitalism is trying to remake rural America in its own image, and the resistance is telling. Small-town economies that have traditionally been based on logging, mining, farming, and ranching now increasingly rely on tourism, second-home ownership, and retirement migration. In Dividing Paradise, Jennifer Sherman tells the story of Paradise Valley, Washington, a rural community where amenity-driven economic growth has resulted in a new social landscape of inequality and privilege, with deep fault lines between old-timers and newcomers. In this complicated cult…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-97327-5
- EAN: 9780520973275
- Produktnummer: 34662558
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'251 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Jennifer Sherman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. She is the author of Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America and a coeditor of Rural Poverty in the United States.
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