Someplace like America : tales from the New Great Depression / / Dale Maharidge
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| Autore: |
Maharidge Dale
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| Titolo: |
Someplace like America : tales from the New Great Depression / / Dale Maharidge
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| 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 | |
| United States - Economic conditions - 21st century | |
| United States - Social conditions - 21st century | |
| Working class - United States | |
| Working poor - United States | |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-520-95650-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815578403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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