Gene F. Summers is professor of rural sociology, University of Wisconsin—Madison. His work on community changes associated with the restructuring of national economies has resulted in two books, Industrial Invasion of Nonmetropolitan America and Nonmetropolitan Economic Growth and Community Change.

• Other Titles in This Series -- Eugene A. Wilkening: A Biographical Note -- Record of Achievements -- Introduction -- Adoption and Diffusion -- The Diffusion-Adoption Process in Agriculture: Changes in Technology and Changing Paradigms -- Public Protests Against Technological Innovations -- Biotechnology and Unnatural Selection: The Social Control of Genes -- Technology and the Structure of Agriculture -- Technology and U.S. Agriculture -- Beyond the Family Farm -- European Social Theory and the Agrarian Question: Towards a Sociology of Agriculture -- Policy Evolution and Current Crisis in Polish Agriculture -- Technology and Rural Life -- Agricultural Technology and Agrarian Community Organization -- Changes in the Social and Spatial Structure of the Rural Community -- Farm Family and the Role of Women -- The Appropriate Technology Movement -- Soft Tech/Hard Tech, Hi Tech/Lo Tech: A Social Movement Analysis of Appropriate Technology -- Soft Energy and Hard Labor? Structural Restraints on the Transition to Appropriate Technology -- Economic Effects of Technology in Agriculture in Less Developed Countries