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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jacob, Jeffrey, 1942- New pioneers. University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1997 (OCoLC)606049372 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jeffrey Jacob |
| ISBN: | 0271016213 9780271016214 0271016221 9780271016221 0271018283 9780271018287 |
| OCLC Number: | 34471436 |
| Description: | xvi, 262 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Conventional Radicals: Back-to-the-Land Profiles -- 2. Seven Ways of Living Back-to-the-Land: Work, Time, and Money in the Country -- 3. Quest For Wholeness: Back-to-the-Land Values -- 4. Soft Paths: Back-to-the-Land Technology -- 5. Urban Pioneers -- 6. Organizing for Change: New Pioneers as Activists -- 7. Back-to-the-Landers as New Pioneers: The Search for a Sustainable Future. |
| Responsibility: | Jeffrey Jacob. |
Abstract:
Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of urban North Americans have given up their city or suburban homes to move "back to the land." New Pioneers is the first comprehensive study of these back-to-the-landers. From more than 1,300 survey responses, interviews, and in-depth case studies, at both the regional and national levels, of representative back-to-the-landers, Jacob analyzes their values, use of labor on their acreages, and their predisposition toward environmental activism. After examining the experiences of the back-to-the-country people who live on the margins of a postindustrial society, Jacob creates a clearer appreciation of the preconditions necessary to translate the idea of sustainable living into concrete action on a societywide scale.
While New Pioneers describes an important social movement, it also shows how far a group of highly motivated individuals and families can go, by themselves, in breaking away from the prevailing consumer culture. The dilemmas, frustrations, adaptations, and triumphs of these neo-homesteaders offer valuable insights to anyone contemplating a move "back to the land."
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