San Antonio College Library

For many, "going back to the land" brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s-hippie communes and the Summer of Love. More recently, the movement has reemerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. This book explores this recurring impulse.

Many books have told the epic story of the black migration from the South, a migration that by the 1970s had all but stopped. Instead, one by one African Americans began returning to some of the least promising places, places the Department of Agriculture calls "persistent poverty counties." In Call to Home, Carol Stack tells us why. Here are the stories of people trading their apartments in the city for trailers, old cabins, or brick houses built...

"By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, who lead second-class lives without access to urban benefits....

Collection of writings on the effects (economic implications) of racial discrimination on Black poverty in the USA - covers racial inequality of employment opportunity, rural migration to urban area slum neighbourhoods, housing discrimination, public opinion concerning the social integration of negroes, government policy, etc. Bibliography pp. 184 to 186 and statistical tables.

"Combining remarkable economic transition and dynamic growth, China may well have the most fascinating economy in the world. Over the period of economic reform China has moved from an administered labour system towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation, involving new economic incentives, vast labour migration, draconian retrenchment of state workers, and sharply rising wage inequality, is unprecedented in world history."...

Critical appraisal of the CIAP and its influence on social change and economic development in Latin America - covers financial aspects and administrative aspects, the role of USA in providing economic aid, trade, economic integration, political problems, agrarian reform, rural migration, urbanization, education, etc. References and statistical tables.