Introduction: Questions of Rurality Terry Marsden, Philip Lowe and Sarah Whatmore 1. Who is Rural? Or, How to Be Rural: Towards a Sociology of the Rural Marc Mormont 2. Restructuring Agriculture in Advanced Societies: Transformation, Crisis and Responses Patrick Commins 3. Paradigmatic Shift in Agriculture: Global Effects and the Swedish Response Martin Peterson 4. Agricultural Restructuring and Rural Social Change in Australia Geoffrey Lawrence 5. Rural Labour-Market Changes in the United States Gene F. Summers, Francine Horton and Christina Gringeri 6. Class and Change in Rural Britain Paul Cloke and Nigel Thrift 7. Household, Consumption and Livelihood: Ideologies and Issues in Rural Research Nanneke Redclift and Sarah Whatmore.

Review of the original edition of Rural Restructuring: ‘This book is an important supplemental source of ideas…although [it] has a strong sociological orientation, geographers will benefit from the authors’ efforts to interpret new developments in social theory as part of an analysis of rural change.’ M. Duane Nellis, The Geographical Bulletin, Vol 38, Issue 2.