Alternative economic strategies in low-income rural communities: TANF, labor migration, and the case of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Rural Sociology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 148-167

  Pickering, Kathleen ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING STRATEGY; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LABOR MIGRATION; LOW INCOME POPULATION; RURAL ECONOMY;

NORTH DAKOTA; PINE RIDGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034081536     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-0831.2000.tb00347.x     Document Type: Article

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