Social Forces

Feldman, Shelley.
Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America (review)
Social Forces - Volume 80, Number 1, September 2001, pp. 371-373

The University of North Carolina Press

Shelley Feldman - Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America (review) - Social Forces 80:1 Social Forces 80.1 (2001) 371-373 Book Review Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America Working Hard and Making Do: Surviving in Small Town America. Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith. University of California Press, 1999. 279 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95. Accompanying dramatic changes in the organization of global production is the transformation of local communities characterized by declines in the long-term, full-time work that once characterized industrial employment. With a focus on the consequences of plant closures in Coolidge County, Vermont, Margaret Nelson and Joan Smith argue that rural communities are not only becoming more modern and reindustrialized -- depending increasingly upon service sector and self-employment -- but that there are other...