Contested Needs: Shifting the Standpoint on Rural Economic Development
对比了爱荷华州西南部两个农村小镇中白人北欧裔美国女工与经济发展公司成员对社区经济发展的不同看法，主张扩大社区经济发展中的参与群体以挑战主流需求解释。
Economic restructuring is reshaping the lives of rural residents in the U.S. In response to these changes, small towns are attempting to generate economic development strategies that would increase their economic viability. This article contrasts perspectives on community-based economic development held by white North European-American women factory workers with members of the Economic Development Corporations in two rural towns in southwest Iowa. Drawing upon a multidimensional standpoint analysis and Nancy Fraser's ''politics of needs interpretation, '' I argue for broadening the constituency for community-based accounts of economic development in order to contest dominant interpretations of needs that typify contemporary approaches.