Someplace like America [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the New Great Depression / / Dale Maharidge

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786384903321
• Autore: Maharidge Dale
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-520-95650-8
• Edizione: [Updated ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5620973
• Soggetti: Poverty - United States; Unemployed - United States; Working class - United States; Working poor - United States; United States Economic conditions 21st century; United States Social conditions 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Photographs by Michael S. Williamson".; "With a foreword by Bruce Springsteen".
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword By Bruce Springsteen -- Preface To The 2013 Edition -- Someplace Like America: An Introduction -- Snapshots From The Road, 2009 -- Part 1. America Begins A Thirty-Year Journey To Nowhere: The 1980's -- Part 2. The Journey Continues: The 1990's -- Part 3. A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2000 -- Part 4. Updating People And Places: The Late 2000's -- Part 5. America With The Lid Ripped Off: The Late 2000's -- Part 6. Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America -- Acknowledgments And Credits -- Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working ; class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study-begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe-puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.