The past two decades have witnessed significant growth in home-based work (HBW), particularly home-based business (HBB) activity and self-employment. These phenomena are attributed to factors such as flexible organization of production. While some empirical accounts on HBW and HBB activity in Canada do exist, they have mostly been conducted at the national or urban level rather than in rural areas. This thesis, therefore, places greater emphasis on rural HBBs in Saskatchewan where out-migration of people is threatening the viability and sustainability of rural and small communities. It is argued that rural sustainability largely depends on economic viability. The study area for the research includes the City of Saskatoon and the countryside surrounding this city. <p>The overall goal of this research is to contribute to the discussion of rural sustainability by considering HBBs as a potential strategy to achieve sustainability in rural areas and small communities. Therefore, the primary objectives of the dissertation are to examine the nature and degree of relationships of home business activity between rural, rural-urban fringe and urban areas, and the implications on links for sustainability of rural households and communities; to examine the relationship of HBB activity to the concept of rural entrepreneurship and business development; and to assess the contributions of rural and small town HBBs to the sustainability of households and communities in Saskatchewan. <p>A combination of the concept of sustainable community development, the von Thunen model and the competitive strategy model (i.e., cost-leadership, differentiation, focus) provide the theoretical framework of the thesis. Through snowball sampling and mail questionnaire surveys, primary data on HBBs were obtained from Saskatoon and its surrounding regions in Saskatchewan for micro-level analysis. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were employed to analyze the data. <p>Major findings of the thesis include the linkages that HBBs create among places and the impact of links on community sustainability; and the apparent spatial variations in HBBs, motivations, competitive strategies, and benefits of home businesses from the urban core to the limits of the rural hinterland. It was also found that home businesses contribute positively to the sustainability of households and communities in rural Saskatchewan. Specifically, they generate significant revenue and employment opportunities for people, while supporting local economies through their networks, purchasing and selling of goods and services locally as well as keeping managers and members of their households in rural areas and small communities for considerable number of years. Indeed home-based occupation is a vital component of the mechanisms for rural sustainability. Also, this thesis proposed a rural-urban HBB model for future social science research. <p>Major conceptual underpinnings of the research include rural-urban relations; regional and community economic development, sustainable community development; rural entrepreneurship, home-based work, home business, self-employment, competitive strategy, and the von Thunen Isolated State model.

IN ENGLISH Author's name: Bc. Dzmitry Badzevich. School: Charles University, Prague Faculty of Humanities. U Kříže 8 150 00 Praha 5. Program: "Historical sociology". Title: BELARUS ON THE CROSSROADS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY: HISTORICAL AND SOCIOLOGICAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CHANGE IN SOVIET BELARUS AND WESTERN BELARUS IN 1921-1939. Consultant: Doc. PhDr. Jiří Šubrt, CSc. Number of pages: 106 + attachments. Number of attachments: 3. Year: 2012. Key words: Capitalism, communism, social change, social structure, society,economy, urban and rural economy, industry, law system, government institutions, education, religion, ideology, family, every day. This thesis describes the processes of social changes inside social structure in contemporary Belarus, which has developed by different ways during the interwar years in 1921-1939. Combination of two theoretical concepts like "ideal types" (Parsons's AGIL and Sztompka's typology of the process of social change) have been defined terminology and methods of operation for analyzing and comparing. First part focuses on the history of Belarusian land before1921. The next part describes structural development of Western Belarus in Poland and Soviet Belarus in Soviet Union in the years 1921-1939. Last part has been explained the research of compares the...

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2018-09-05T22:41:22Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LINDALVA SILVA CORREIA MAIA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGERR 2004..pdf: 7686421 bytes, checksum: 3e2b7f04a88de15584d4b5bb2da2fd2c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-05T22:41:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LINDALVA SILVA CORREIA MAIA - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGERR 2004..pdf: 7686421 bytes, checksum: 3e2b7f04a88de15584d4b5bb2da2fd2c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / 0 processo de modernização a que foi submetida à agricultura brasileira nas últimas décadas, engendrou profundas modificações, não apenas na base técnica do processo produtivo, mas também nas relações de trabalho, nas relações intersetoriais que se estabeleceram entre agricultura - indústria c, principalmente, nas relações sociais de produção. As mudanças, resultantes nas relações sociais de produção, tendem a estabelecer repercussões significativas na estrutura de classes sociais no campo, encaminhando os pequenos produtores a um processo de diferenciação social. Neste trabalho buscou-se analisar esse processo entre os pequenos produtores de frutas, nos Projetos Irrigados do Submédio São Francisco, na região de Petrolina (PE) mais especificamente, Bebedouro c Nilo Coelho. Neste ambiente logrou-se verificar os principais condicionantes da desigualdade de rendimentos, que possam estar encaminhando os pequenos produtores pesquisados a uma mobilidade na estrutura de classes sociais cm que se encontram. Para tanto, foram analisados aspectos de ordem qualitativa, concernentes ao perfil social dos produtores e, quantitativos referentes ao comportamento produtivo dos atores sociais envolvidos no processo, como importantes diretrizes que permitissem o entendimento dessa relação que se estabelece pelo desenvolvimento do capitalismo na agricultura. As evidencias apresentadas pelos dados discutidos no trabalho identificaram que, de forma geral, os colonos revelaram-se diferenciados, tanto nos aspectos qualitativos quanto aos quantitativos. Demonstraram ainda, uma ampla margem de resistência aos desafios concorrenciais com as empresas agrícolas, assim como capacidade de resposta às exigências de modernização tecnológica c reestruturação produtiva. / The process of modernization that the Brazilian agriculture has been submitted to in the last decades, has engendered profound modifications not only in the basic technique of the production process, as in work relations as well as the relation of the sectors that have been established between Agriculture and Industry, and mainly the relations of social production. The results of changes in the social relation of production tend to establish significant repercussions in the structure of the social field classes, conducting the small farmers to process social differences. This study was based on the analysis between the small fruit farmers, from Irrigation Projects of the sub medium region of the São Francisco valley, in Petrolina PE, more specifically, in Bebedouro and Nilo Coelho. In this deceitful environment the main condition of uneven revenue was verified, which could be leading the small producers surveyed to the social class structure, which they are found. Therefore, the aspects in the order of quality, concentrated on the social profile of the producers and how much it refers to the productive behavior of the social factors involved in the process, such as the important directives that would permit the understanding of this relation that was established in the development of capitalism in the agriculture. The evidence presented by the data discussed in this study identify that, usually the colonials reveal themselves indifferently, as much as in the aspects of quality and quantity, revealing a great resistance from the farmers to the challenges of commercial rivalry with the agricultural industries as well as the capacity of resporse to the demands of the modernized technology and production restructuring.

La Syrie centrale connaît au début de la période byzantine, et en particulier au Ve et au VIe siècle, un fort mouvement d’expansion des sédentaires vers l’est, qui coïncide avec une importante mise en valeur de ces nouveaux territoires. Comme pour d’autres régions de Syrie et du Proche-Orient à la même époque, un optimum climatique – pourtant déclinant – semble avoir permis la conquête et l’exploitation agricole de nouveaux terroirs dans une zone marginale qui n’avait jusqu’alors connu qu’une occupation sédentaire ponctuelle. La Syrie centrale est caractérisée par des milieux aux potentiels agronomiques très différents, souvent imbriqués. Le peuplement et la mise en valeur y sont soumis à la double contrainte de l’aridité climatique et édaphique, qui s’exerce avec une prégnance croissante vers le sud et l’est. Ces conditions, qui s’améliorent localement à la faveur de niches écologiques, ont permis à des politiques de mise en valeur et à des économies distinctes, souvent complémentaires, de voir le jour.Dans une région où les cités paraissent en grande partie absentes, l’économie repose d’abord sur les villages et sur quelques bourgs qui possédaient manifestement une orientation commerciale spécifique. Aux côtés des agglomérations, et souvent d’autant plus nombreux que les conditions d’implantation sont délicates, des fermes et des monastères s’affirment comme des acteurs économiques apparemment indépendants et souvent prospères. Des entités géographiques relativement homogènes ont donné lieu à une répartition des différentes formes de peuplement et à des économies microrégionales spécifiques. Si l’agriculture vivrière reste la règle, il semble bien cependant qu’on observe une spécialisation locale des productions : culture du blé et accessoirement plantations à l’ouest, oléiculture et peut-être viticulture dans les plateaux basaltiques du nord-ouest et vraisemblablement un élevage spéculatif, qu’on doit probablement attribuer à des populations sédentaires, dans les secteurs sud et est. / In Late Antiquity, especially between the 5th and 6th centuries, Central Syria witnessed a strong expansion of sedentary settlements eastward, which coincided with a significant agricultural development of these new territories. As for other areas in Syria and Near-East at the same period, a waning climatic optimum seems to have allowed byzantine population to settle down in marginal areas which barely experienced hitherto sedentary occupation and farm nearly unbroken lands.Central Syria is made up of various landscapes, sometimes deeply nested, with contrasted agricultural potential. Settlements and agricultural exploitation are affected by an increasingly significant climatic and edaphic aridity eastward and southward. These conditions, which may locally improve thanks to ecological niches, enabled specific and often complementary substance strategies to develop.In a country whence cities are virtually absent, villages and a few market towns seem to be at the very root of the regional economy. Along with agglomerations, scattered habitats – namely farmsteads and monasteries –, more numerous under heavy bioclimatic constraints, would appear as independent and apparently prosperous economic players.Homogeneous geographic areas led to specific settlement patterns and different economic orientations. Food-producing agriculture remains the rule, but a local productive specialization may be noticed: mainly wheat production and incidentally plantations westward, olive-growing and maybe wine-growing as well in the north-west basaltic plateaus and presumably speculative livestock exploitation eastward and southward, probably mostly due to sedentary populations.