People''s History of Poverty in America

Klappentext In this compulsively readable social history, Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans. He focuses on how the poor have created community, secured shelter, and found food, and illuminates their battles for dignity and respect. Zusammenfassung In this compulsively readable social history, Pimpare vividly describes poverty from the perspective of poor and welfare-reliant Americans. He focuses on how the poor have created community, secured shelter, and found food, and illuminates their battles for dignity and respect.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Pimpare, Pimpare Stephen
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2008
• EAN: 9781565849341
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-934-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: New Press People's History; New Press People's History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, Poverty & unemployment, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Poverty and precarity