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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454602903321

Autore

DiFazio William

Titolo

Ordinary poverty [[electronic resource] ] : a little food and cold storage / / William DiFazio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-59213-458-0

1-59213-786-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Labor in crisis

Disciplina

362.5/0973

Soggetti

Poverty - United States

Poor - United States

Social justice - United States

Electronic books.

United States Economic policy

United States Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 throughout New York City. In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, DiFazio presents the results of welfare reform-from ending entitlements to diminished welfare benefits-through the eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program