Someplace Like America - Tales from the New Great Depression (Paperback, Revised Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	Dale Maharidge
Foreword by:	Bruce Springsteen
Photographers:	Michael S. Williamson
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	276
Edition:	Revised Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-27451-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Poverty Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Homelessness Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Unemployment Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN:	0-520-27451-2
Barcode:	9780520274518

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