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Broken Heartland : The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto Paperback - 1996
by Osha G. Davidson
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- Title Broken Heartland : The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto
- Author Osha G. Davidson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First printing,
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Iowa Press, U.S.A.
- Date 1996
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0877455546I3N00
- ISBN 9780877455547 / 0877455546
- Weight 0.71 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.27 x 6.02 x 0.63 in (23.55 x 15.29 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Social conditions - 1980-, United States - Rural conditions
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96012117
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.336
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From the rear cover
Between 1940 and the mid 1980s, farm production expenses in America's Heartland tripled, capital purchases quadrupled, interest payments jumped tenfold, profits fell 10 percent, the number of farmers decreased by two-thirds, and nearly every farming community lost population, businesses, and economic stability. Growth for these desperate communities has come to mean low-paying part-time jobs, expensive tax concessions, waste dumps, and industrial hog farming, all of which come with environmental and psychological price tags. In Broken Heartland, Osha Gray Davidson chronicles the decline of the Heartland and its transformation into a bitterly divided and isolated regional ghetto. Through interviews with more than two hundred farmers, social workers, government officials, and scholars, he puts a human face on the farm crisis of the 1980s. In this expanded edition, Davidson emphasizes the tenacious power of far-right-wing groups; his chapter on these burgeoning rural organizations in the original edition of Broken Heartland was the first in-depth look - six years before the Oklahoma City bombing - at the politics of hate they nurture. He also spotlights NAFTA, hog lots, sustainable agriculture, and the other battles and changes over the past six years in rural America.