| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 340 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Backstories -- Urban ethnography beyond the culture wars -- Managing homelessness in the United States -- The street : watch out, San Francisco! Ain't gonna get no peace -- Moorings : some other kind of life -- Word on the street : no one loves a loser -- The new hobos -- Rabble management : like I need more drugs in my life? -- The homeless archipelago : a little room for myself -- The old runaround : class cleansing in San Francisco -- The road to Nowheresville |
| Summary |
When homelessness reemerged in American cities during the 1980s at levels not seen since the Great Depression, it initially provoked shock and outrage. Within a few years, however, what had been perceived as a national crisis came to be seen as a nuisance, with early sympathies for the plight of the homeless giving way to compassion fatigue and then condemnation. Debates around the problem of homelessness--often set in terms of sin, sickness, and the failure of the social system--have come to profoundly shape how homeless people survive and make sense of their plights. In Hobos, Hustlers, and Ba |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homeless persons -- California -- San Francisco
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Homeless men -- California -- San Francisco
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Homelessness -- California -- San Francisco
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Social sciences.
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Social Sciences
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social sciences.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
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Homeless men
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Homeless persons
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Homelessness
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Social sciences
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California -- San Francisco
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780816673544 |
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0816673543 |
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