{"product_id":"those-who-work-those-who-dont-poverty-morality-and-family-in-rural-america","title":"Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThose Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJennifer Sherman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780816659050\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniv Of Minnesota Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2009\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e264\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the rural poor prioritize issues such as the right to bear arms, and disapprove of welfare despite their economic concerns, they are often dismissed as uneducated and backward by academics and political analysts. In \u003ci\u003eThose Who Work, Those Who Don't\u003c\/i\u003e, Jennifer Sherman offers a much-needed sympathetic understanding of poor rural Americans, persuasively arguing that the growing cultural significance of moral values is a reasonable and inevitable response to economic collapse and political powerlessness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThose Who Work, Those Who Don't\u003c\/i\u003e is based on the intimate interviews and in-depth research Sherman conducted while spending a year living in \"Golden Valley,\" a remote logging town in Northern California. Economically devastated by the 1990 ruling that listed the northern spotted owl as a threatened species, Golden Valley proved to be a rich case study for Sherman. She looks at how the members of the community coped with downward mobility caused by the loss of timber industry jobs and examines a wide range of reactions. She shows how substance abuse, domestic violence, and gender roles fluctuated under the town's economic strain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompellingly written, shot through with honesty and empathy, \u003ci\u003eThose Who Work, Those Who Don't\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare firsthand account that studies the rural poor. As incomes erode and the American dream becomes more and more inaccessible, Sherman reveals that moral values and practices become a way for the poor to gain status and maintain a sense of dignity in the face of economic ruin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America | Jennifer Sherman | Paperback | 9780816659050 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks G 1747715","offer_id":48843017060504,"sku":"1747715","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/51SBTKjpZYL.jpg?v=1775247200","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/those-who-work-those-who-dont-poverty-morality-and-family-in-rural-america","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}