More than bread : ethnography of a soup kitchen /

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More Than Bread examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age gro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glasser, Irene
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2010], ©1988.
Temas:
Soup kitchens > United States.
Poor > United States > Social conditions.
Poverty > Psychological aspects.
Soupes populaires > États-Unis.
Pauvreté > Aspect psychologique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Poverty & Homelessness.
Poor > Social conditions
Poverty > Psychological aspects
Soup kitchens
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The contemporary soup kitchen
  • A historical perspective
  • The tabernacle soup kitchen
  • Field study methods
  • Profile of the guest population
  • Loneliness
  • An ambience of acceptance
  • Social networks and social support
  • Self-help in the dining room : guests as counselors
  • Staff philosophy and the concept of ministry
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Epilogue.

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