Recently added articles from Rural Sociology:
Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization
Dec 01, 2008; ... Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization, edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas Murray and John Wilkinson, New York: Routledge, 2007. 240 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 0-415-77203-6. The academic literature on fair trade has expanded substantially in the past few years, moving ...
State Welfare Rules, TANF Exits, and Geographic Context: Does Place Matter?*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This research compares the likelihood of exiting TANF with and without employment and the effects of important state TANF rules on welfare exits in more disadvantaged (large Rustbelt cities and poor southern nonmetro) and less disadvantaged (other metro and other nonmetro) areas during ...
Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature
Dec 01, 2008; ... Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature, by Michael R. Redclift, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 236 pp. $23.00 (paper). ISBN: 10: 0-262-68160-9. Redclift's book is one of the most interesting sociological books exploring the separation of nature and society (or society-nature ...
The Sociology of Spatial Inequality
Dec 01, 2008; ... The Sociology of Spatial Inequality, edited by Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks and Ann R. Tickamyer, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. 274 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-7914-7108-1. As sociologists, we often examine inequality in the context of sociodemographic variables ...
Nonstandard Employment in the Nonmetropolitan United States*
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT We examine the prevalence of nonstandard employment in the nonmetropolitan United States using the Current Population Survey Supplement on Contingent Work (1999 and 2001). We find that nonstandard work is more prevalent in nonmetropolitan than in central city or suburban areas. Logistic ...