Journal of Comparative Family Studies articles from June 2005

Journal of Comparative Family Studies archives from June 2005

Abstracts (French).
June 22, 2005... BRUNO HILDENBRAND, Institut fur Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller Universitat Jena, D 07740 Jena, Germany CHARLES B. HENNON, Family Studies and Social Work, Center for Human Development, Learning and Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio...

Abstracts (Spanish).
June 22, 2005... BRUNO HILDENBRAND, Institut fur Soziologie, Friedrich-Schiller Universitat Jena, D 07740 Jena, Germany CHARLES B. HENNON, Family Studies and Social Work, Center for Human Development, Learning and Teaching, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio...

Above all, farming means family farming: context for introducing the articles in this special issue.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION During the 1980s, the proportion of farms in the member states of the European Community owned and run by families ranged between 83% (France) and 100% (Greece). At 67%, Great Britain was an exception (Gasson and Errington,...

The continuity of family agriculture and the succession system: the Basque case.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION The aim of this article is to examine the influence that the systems of inheritance and succession in farm households have on the incorporation of young people from farm households to family agriculture in the Basque Country...

Styles of pig farming and family labour in the Netherlands.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH The concept of styles is multidimensional. With respect to farming, the concept of styles entails the whole of farming practices, including strategies on labour, scale and intensity, recruitment of supplies, and...

Role models and farm development options: a comparison of seven Swiss farm families*.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION With the framework of agricultural policy that has changed dramatically since the 1990s including the introduction of direct payments and the enforcement of various agrarian reforms (Agricultural Policy 2002 and 2007), a high...

Family farm transactions in Norway: unpaid care across three farm generations*.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION This article presents an analysis of patterns of care and unpaid work across generations in Norwegian farm families. (1) It focuses on "beanpole" families, those with several living generations (Brannen, 2003). Understanding...

Presentation of personal control in the rhetoric of farm families engaged in business diversification in Finland.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION Small-scale family farming has been under considerable pressures in Western countries during the last decades (Chaplin et al., 2004; Djurfelt and Gooch, 2002; Johnsen, 2003; Mascarenhas, 2001; Melberg, 2003; Welsh, 1997)....

The influence of "family" on agrarian structure: revisiting the family farm debate in Bulgaria and Southern Russia.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION The development of "family farming" was a hot topic in studies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the early 1990s. Proponents saw the creation of Western, family-style farms as the antidote to the low productivity...

Modernising to remain traditional: farm families maintaining a valued lifestyle*.
June 22, 2005... INTRODUCTION The intent of this article is to offer three conceptualisations (a typology, a conditional matrix, and options for farm families remaining "traditional") that can be useful for researching and understanding farming families,...