A Generation Later : : Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines / / James F. Eder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Eder, James F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [1999]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

A Generation Later moves beyond analytical models of rural change that focus on the peasant/agricultural aspect of rural communities and makes a convincing case for an approach that integrates farm and nonfarm occupations and does justice to the conditions of occupational multiplicity that characterize, to an increasing extent, many of the rural communities in Asia. In this context, it challenges conventional (and simplistic) "peasant to proletarian" views of change. Rather than finding a dreary and dispirited landscape of sameness and hardship, it offers some empirical support for amore optimistic view of the region's future, one of growing household prosperity and widespread individual opportunity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Developing Community, Developing Region -- Chapter 3 The Evolution of an Intensive Upland Agriculture -- Chapter 4 Diversification and Differentiation in the Community Economy -- Chapter 5 Contemporary Household Strategies for Survival and Prosperity -- Chapter 6 Social Standing, Personal Worth, and the Aspirations of Individuals -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Appendix Selected Attributes of Second-Generation Sample Households -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index -- About the Author