02872nam 22007094a 450 991097312340332120200520144314.09781592134588159213458097815921378621592137865(CKB)1000000000522949(EBL)951124(OCoLC)806203265(SSID)ssj0000282532(PQKBManifestationID)11227694(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282532(PQKBWorkID)10317053(PQKB)10272968(MiAaPQ)EBC951124(Au-PeEL)EBL951124(CaPaEBR)ebr10182525(CaONFJC)MIL514667(Perlego)2040099(EXLCZ)99100000000052294920050527d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOrdinary poverty a little food and cold storage /William DiFazio1st ed.Philadelphia, PA Temple University Press20061 online resource (233 p.)Labor in crisisDescription based upon print version of record.9781299834163 1299834167 9781592130146 1592130143 Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.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; IndexAt 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 Labor in crisis.PovertyUnited StatesPoorUnited StatesCase studiesSocial justiceUnited StatesUnited StatesEconomic policyUnited StatesSocial policyPovertyPoorSocial justice362.5/0973DiFazio William1807811MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973123403321Ordinary poverty4357771UNINA