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Checkerboard Square : culture and resistance in a homeless community
- Title
- Checkerboard Square : culture and resistance in a homeless community / David Wagner.
- Author
- Wagner, David.
- Publication
- Boulder : Westview Press, 1993.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 200 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- Homeless persons > United States > Case studies
- Homeless persons > Services for > United States > Case studies
- Homeless persons > United States > Attitudes > Case studies
- Homeless persons
- Homeless persons > Attitudes
- Homeless persons > Services for
- Obdachlosigkeit
- Thuislozen
- Hulpverlening
- Homelessness > United States > Case studies
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Case studies
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Beyond the conventional wisdom on the homeless -- Voices from Checkerboard Square -- The family: no haven -- "Get ajob": the limits of the work ethic -- Institutions of control: social welfare as contested terrain -- Alternative institutions and movements among street people -- Subcultures and patterns of association among street people -- Checkerboard Square and a radical critique of homelessness.
- ISBN
- 0813315859
- 9780813315850
- 0813315867
- 9780813315867
- LCCN
- 93003744
- OCLC
- ocm27895980
- 27895980
- SCSB-2000742
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library