Deciding When to Decide: Illinois Grain Farmers at Retirement

This dissertation has focused on Illinois grain farmers as they approach self-defined ages of retirement. Intensive case studies in one township were combined into three primary types and one disrupted case based on land control styles. The aim was to display common factors (historical, cultural, technological, and environmental) which influenced farm management styles, social networks, and growth and change in families and individuals. Locating Illinois grain farmers in time and space injected a sense of continuity of the past with the present and an awareness of the continuing nature of change in rural Illinois.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Roper, Roy Ernest

• Anthropology, Cultural
• Gerontology

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8600296

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70694