{"product_id":"locality-and-inequality-linda-m-lobao-9780791404768","title":"Locality and Inequality: Farm and Industry Structure and Socioeconomic Conditions","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how the recent restructuring of farming and industry has affected economic and social equality in the United States. The author explains how the farm sector has undergone a dramatic restructuring with profound effects. Moderate-size family farms, the mainstay of American agriculture, have declined during the postwar period and are now under severe financial stress. Large-scale industrialized farms - \"the factories in the field,\" often run by corporations - continue to expand their share of agricultural sales while small farms operated on a part-time basis appear to be replacing traditional family farming. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLobao shows that public concern about farm restructuring is indeed warranted and that the nation now appears to be losing its most beneficial farms as well as industries. While local and regional social and economic forces and state policy can be brought to bear on these trends, Lobao particulary focuses on how community empowerment and broad-based political coalitions offer the most promise for fundamental change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda M. Lobao\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791404765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791404768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.08h x 6.06w x 0.78d","brand":"Linda M. Lobao","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065122959615,"sku":"9780791404768","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7822d52d-ae38-45d4-a2b6-f3a85836f2c3.jpg?v=1768673141","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/locality-and-inequality-linda-m-lobao-9780791404768","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}