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



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Autore: Maharidge Dale Visualizza persona
Titolo: Someplace like America [[electronic resource] ] : tales from the New Great Depression / / Dale Maharidge Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Edizione: Updated ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (349 p.)
Disciplina: 305.5620973
Soggetto topico: Poverty - United States
Unemployed - United States
Working class - United States
Working poor - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Economic conditions 21st century
United States Social conditions 21st century
Soggetto non controllato: anthropology
biographical
blue collar
career
current events
devastating portrait
economic numbers
economics
engaging
family
history
journalism
labor industrial relations
labor relations
middle class
money and power
money
photobook
photography
political science
political
politics
poverty and inequality
poverty
social history
social issues
social justice
social science
sociology
stunning photographs
thoughtful analysis
unemployment
urban decay
vivid stories
working class america
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Someplace like America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95650-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786384903321
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