This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. It is funded by the University of Otago …

The process of agricultural restructuring embarked upon by the New Zealand government in
the mid-1980s precipitated a period of financial hardship for many of the nation's farmers. It …

Despite widespread interest in the notion of sustainability, little progress has been made
towards an understanding of its social dimensions. Nonetheless, the concept ofsustainable …

The desire of workers to engage in moonlighting, a phenomenon of multiple job-holding is a
reflection of some of the changing labour market outcomes. Public sector workers who …

This article reports research investigating the ways individuals and families in New Zealand
have adapted to and created economic and social change through holding multiple jobs …

Using empirical evidence and an exploration of literature on simple commodity and capitalist
farm production, a theoretical argument is developed to show that, despite not employing …

This paper explores the side activities of non-farmers in rural areas in the Netherlands and
more specifically their start up motives. A side activity is a small-scale home-based activity …

While pluriactivity has mainly been identified as a capital accumulation strategy, it has also
been recognized as a survival strategy particularly in a resource-constrained environment …

The study of rural pluriactivity in New Zealand has been based on the assumption that it is a
temporary phenomenon: a survival strategy in times of crisis. This paper seeks to position …

ABSTRACT Farm households in New Zealand have responded to the changing political and
economic environment since the mid‐1980s in a variety of ways. This paper explores the …