Checkerboard square : culture and resistance in a homeless community /: culture and resistance in a homeless community. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David Wagner.
• Authors: Wagner, David
• Contents: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom on the Homeless -- Voices from Checkerboard Square -- Homelessness and the Culture of Resistance -- The Family: No Haven -- "Get a Job": The Limits of the Work Ethic -- Institutions of Control: Social Welfare as Contested Terrain -- The Social Organization of the Streets -- Alternative Institutions and Movements Among Street People -- Subcultures and Patterns of Association Among Street People -- Checkerboard Square and a Radical Critique of Homelessness
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.50973; Homeless persons -- United States; Homeless persons -- United States -- Attitudes; Homeless persons -- Services for -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429719707
• Related ISBNs: 9780429699696; 9780429739712; 9780429034640
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