Down on Their Luck - A Study of Homeless Street People

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List of contents

Preface 
PART ONE INTRODUCTION
1. Studying the Homeless 
2. A Grounded Typology of Homeless Street
People 
PART TWO LIFE ON THE STREETS: DAILY
ROUTINES AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
3. The Subculture of Street Life 
4. Wage Labor and Institutionalized Assistance 
5. Shadow Work 
6. Tenuous Ties 
7. Salvaging the Self 
PART THREE DYNAMICS OF HOMELESSNESS
8. Pathways to the Street 
9. Homeless Careers 
Epilogue 
Notes 
References 
Index 

Summary

Shows us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. This title reveals who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. It sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic.

Product details

• Authors: Leon Anderson, Anderson Leon, David Snow, David A. Snow, David A. Anderson Snow, Snow David A., Snow/Anderson
• Assisted by: Leon Anderson (Editor), David A. Snow (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.1993
• EAN: 9780520079892
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07989-2
• No. of pages: 405
• Series: Poetics; 24
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, United States of America, USA, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness