ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overall framework within which to cast analysis of the changes. The kind of agriculture and, to a large extent, the kind of rural society that exists can be attributed to the nature and form of the intervention. Access to production resources as a dimension of the class structure of rural communities has been a neglected area of research. The major research foci outlined should be set within an analytical framework that will capture the relevant national and international dimensions that influence rural change and produce changes in class structures and alliances. In the 1970s, agriculture in the United States (U.S) underwent far-reaching changes. The concern with survival strategies forms the analytical link between causes of changing structures, the nature of state intervention in organizing agricultural production, and the changing class structure of the rural sector of the U.S.
