Glen H Elder: 2 books
Children Of The Great Depression
25th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and...
Children of the Land
Adversity and Success in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
A century ago, most Americans had ties to the land. Now only one in fifty is engaged in farming and little more than a fourth live in rural communities. Though not new, this exodus from the land represents one of the great social movements of our age and is also symptomatic of an unparalleled transformation...