The specific purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of several decades of high out-migration in the socioeconomic adjustment of households left behind in the Arkansas Ozarks and to identify meaningful labor force and social adjustments to poverty area industrialization. The study involved 12 counties in north-central Arkansas. The research…

The data on which this report is based were gathered from 1,074 male household heads between ages 45 and 64 whose educational attainment was between grades 1 and 8. Respondents were farmers, operatives, craftsmen, farm laborers, and other laborers. The purposes of this report were (1) to describe the occupational characteristics of low-income…

The purposes of this 1961 study were to identify attitudes and goals of farm people in low income areas and to relate these factors and selected social and personal factors to patterns of adjustment to economic and situational conditions. The sample for the study consisted of 296 farm families in Watauga County, North Carolina. Results of the…