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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Glasser, Irene
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1988.
Sujets:
Soup kitchens > United States.
Poor > United States > Social conditions.
Poverty > Psychological aspects.
Soupes populaires > États-Unis.
Pauvreté > Aspect psychologique.
Poor > Social conditions
Poverty > Psychological aspects
Soup kitchens
United States
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Résumé: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 groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser challenges the popular assumption that soup kitchens function primarily to provide food for the hungry by refocusing our attention on the social aspects of the dining room. The soup kitchen.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (201 pages)
ISBN:9780817383930
081738393X

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