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

• Autore: DiFazio William
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5/0973
• Soggetto topico: Poverty - United States; Poor - United States; Social justice - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Economic policy; United States Social policy
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Ordinary poverty
• ISBN: 1-59213-458-0; 1-59213-786-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814481903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Labor in crisis.