Research Catalog

Title

Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide / Neil Larry Shumsky.

Author

Shumsky, Neil L., 1944-

Publication

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2012.

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Details

Description

xxix, 389 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

This book presents an unflinching investigation of homelessness in the United States--a problem that has been with us since the arrival of the first English settlers nearly 400 years ago. --from publisher description.

Series Statement

Documentary and reference guides

Uniform Title

Documentary and reference guides

Subject

• Homelessness > United States > History > Sources
• Homelessness > United States > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I. Words and numbers : Words ; Numbers -- pt. II. Hoboes, tramps, and bums, 1790-1930 : Ben Reitman defines hobo, tramp, and bum ; Jack London explains "the rods" ; Train jumping ; A migrant farm worker ; The extent of the problem, 1890-1925 ; Country lodgings ; The stem, or main stem ; The hobo jungle ; "Tramp-speak" and the hobo subculture ; Hobo songs ; Hobo politics ; The hobo college ; Hobohemia disappears -- pt. III. Migrants and transients, 1930-1960 : On the farm ; In the city ; Bonus army ; FERA and FTP ; Bum brigade ; Squatters ; Weedpatch camp ; Hooverville ; Picking grapes in Lodi ; Arts and culture ; Liquidating the Federal Transient Program -- pt. IV. Street people, bag ladies, and homeless people : Defining homelessness and counting homeless people : Charles Dickens coins the word ; Congress defines homeless ; Mitch Snyder claims "millions" ; HUD disagrees sharply ; Making sense of the conflict ; The number of homeless -- Who are the homeless? : An overview of the homeless population today ; Special populations of homeless people ; Homeless children and their families ; Homeless veterans ; Homeless people in rural areas ; Homeless people of color ; Homeless Latinos and a different perspective -- Contending with homelessness : Staying alive: homeless people cope ; Housing for the homeless ; Criminalizing the homeless ; Washington takes the lead.

ISBN

• 9780313377006 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0313377006 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780313377013 (ebook)
• 0313377014 (ebook)

LCCN

^^2011043428

OCLC

• 729344471
• SCSB-11049408

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library