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Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders : homeless in San Francisco /
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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2010.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 340 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816673544 0816673543 |