Paperback
Release Date:01 Aug 1999
ISBN:9780824822132
Hardcover
Release Date:01 Sep 1999
ISBN:9780824821531
A Generation Later
Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines
University of Hawaii Press
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.