Ordinary Poverty : A Little Food and Cold Storage

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At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DiFazio, William
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
St. John's Bread and Life (Soup kitchen)
Social policy.
Social justice.
Poverty.
Poor.
Economic policy.
Justice sociale > États-Unis.
Pauvrete > États-Unis.
Social justice > United States.
Poor > United States > Case studies.
Poverty > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
États-Unis > Politique economique.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Economic policy.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Ordinary Poverty; 2 Soup Kitchen Blues: 1988-1993; 3 Beggars Can't Be Choosers: 1993-2000; 4 The Dialectic of Sister Bernadette: The Limits of Advocacy; 5 Forgetting Poverty: A Seder for Everyone; 6 Conclusion: Making Poverty Extraordinary; Notes; Index

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