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Searching for Rural Development : Labor Migration and Employment in Mexico / Merilee S. Grindle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grindle, Merilee S., Author.
- Series:
- Food Systems and Agrarian Change Series
- Food Systems and Agrarian Change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food Studies.
- Latin American & Caribbean Studies.
- Mexico--Rural conditions.
- Mexico.
- Local Subjects:
- Food Studies.
- Latin American & Caribbean Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.) : 17 tables
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Throughout the Third World, rural people must leave their homes in ever greater numbers to seek temporary work in urban centers, in distant rural areas, or across international borders. This temporary labor migration, less an option than a necessity for many, is symptomatic of rural stagnation and increasing economic dependence and is most prevalent in regions where the base for agricultural development is poor. Searching for Rural Development addresses the critical question of how rural development strategies can help provide more secure livelihoods for the millions who are now unable to sustain themselves and their families in local communities. Focusing on Mexico, Merilee S. Grindle examines how rural families adapt to the paucity of local employment opportunities by pursuing complex strategies of income diversification. She assesses various options for creating jobs in rural and semirural areas and considers how recommended rural development policies can be implemented through the political process.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: In Quest of Rural Development
- 2. Deciding to Migrate: Pushes, Pulls, and Portfolios
- 3. Searching for Opportunities
- 4. Assessing the Present and Anticipating the Future in Four Rural Areas
- 5. The Politics of Rural Development in Mexico
- 6. Rural Development, National Development, and the International Arena
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781501734878
- 1501734873
- OCLC:
- 1129180413
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