Contents -- Preface -- Rural America in a Globalizing World: Introduction and Overview / Conner Bailey, Leif Jensen, and Elizabeth Ransom -- Part I: The Changing Structure of Agriculture -- Agriculture and Food in the 2010s / Alessandro Bonanno -- 1. Economic Concentration in the Agrifood System: Impacts on Rural Communities and Emerging Responses / Douglas H. Constance, Mary Hendrickson, Philip H. Howard, and William D. Heffernan -- 2. The Declining Middle of American Agriculture: A Spatial Phenomenon / Amy Guptill and Rick Welsh -- 3. Land Ownership in American Agriculture / Douglas Jackson-Smith and Peggy Petrzelka -- 4. Mexican-Born Farmworkers in US Agriculture / Eric B. Jensen -- 5. Agricultural Technologies and the Structure of the North American Agrifood System / Leland L. Glenna and Christopher R. Henke -- 6. Food Safety and Governance of the Agrifood System / Michelle R. Worosz and Diana Stuart -- 7. Changing Animal Agriculture and the Issue of Farm Animal Welfare / Jeff Sharp and Dani Deemer -- 8. Agrifood Movements: Diversity, Aims, and Limits / Clare Hinrichs and John Eshleman -- Part II: Natural Resources and Environment -- Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment / Louise Fortmann, Merrill Baker-Médard, and Alice Kelly -- 9. Impacts of Climate Change on People and Communities of Rural America / Lois Wright Morton and Tom Rudel -- 10. Contemporary Water Issues in Rural North America / Courtney G. Flint and Naomi Krogman -- 11. Resource Dependency in Rural America: Continuities and Change / Richard S. Krannich, Brian Gentry, A.E. Luloff, and Peter G. Robertson -- 12. The Gulf: America's Third Coast / Robert Gramling and Shirley Laska -- 13. Biofuels and Rural Communities: Promises, Pitfalls, and Uneven Social and Environmental Impacts / Theresa Selfa and Carmen Bain.

14. New Natural Gas Development and Rural Communities: Key Issues and Research Priorities / Abby Kinchy, Simona Perry, Danielle Rhubart, Richard Stedman, Kathryn Brasier, and Jeffrey Jacquet -- 15. Got Coal? The High Cost of Coal on Mining-Dependent Communities in Appalachia and the West / Suzanne E. Tallichet -- Part III: Population Change in Rural North America -- Rural Population Change in Social Context / David L. Brown -- 16. Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America: 2000 to 2010 / Kenneth M. Johnson -- 17. Population Shifts across US Nonmetropolitan Regions / John B. Cromartie and Timothy S. Parker -- 18. Rural Families and Households and the Decline of Traditional Structure / Jessica A. Carson and Marybeth J. Mattingly -- 19. Children and Youth in Rural America / Diane K. McLaughlin and Carla Shoff -- 20. Concentrations of the Elderly in Rural America: Patterns, Processes, and Outcomes in a Neoliberal World / Peter B. Nelson -- 21. New Rural Immigrant Destinations: Research for the 2010s / Martha Crowley and Kim Ebert -- Part IV: Diversity in Rural America -- Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Sexuality in Rural America / Carolyn Sachs -- 22. The Status of African Americans in the Rural United States / John J. Green -- 23. Hispanic Immigration, Global Competition, and the Dairy Industry in Rural Communities / J.D. Wulfhorst, Priscilla Salant, Leigh A. Bernacchi, Stephanie L. Kane, Philip Watson, and Erinn Cruz -- 24. Native Nations in a Changing Global Economy / Sarah Dewees -- 25 The Past is the Present: Gender and the Status of Rural Women / Cynthia B. Struthers -- 26. Rolling in the Hay: The Rural as Sexual Space / Julie C. Keller and Michael M. Bell -- 27. Rural Poverty: The Great Recession, Rising Unemployment, and the Under-Utilized Safety Net / Jennifer Sherman -- Part V: Rural Economies, Community, and Quality of Life.

Economic Change, Structural Forces, and Rural America: Shifting Fortunes across Communities / Linda Lobao -- 28. Education and Schooling in Rural America / Kai A. Schafft and Catharine Biddle -- 29. Work in Rural America in the Era of Globalization / Tim Slack -- 30. Rural Entrepreneurship / Lori A. Dickes and Kenneth L. Robinson -- 31. Community Organization and Mobilization in Rural America / Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora -- 32. Community as Moral Proximity: Theorizing Community in a Global Economy / Todd L. Goodsell, Jeremy Flaherty, and Ralph B. Brown -- 33. Food Insecurity and Obesity in Rural America: Paradoxes of the Modern Agrifood System / Keiko Tanaka, Patrick H. Mooney, and Brett Wolff -- 34. Thinking about Rural Health / E. Helen Berry -- 35. Housing in Rural America / Katherine A. MacTavish, Ann Ziebarth, and Lance George -- Contributors.