Down on Their Luck
A Study of Homeless Street People
Paperback Engels 1993 9780520079892Samenvatting
David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas, Snow and Anderson reveal who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. Debunking current stereotypes of the homeless, "Down on Their Luck" sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic. Their survival is a tale of human resilience and determination, not one of frailty and disability.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
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
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan
