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Someplace like America : tales from the New Great Depression / Dale Maharidge.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maharidge, Dale.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--United States--Case studies.
- Poverty.
- Unemployed--United States--Case studies.
- Unemployed.
- United States--Economic conditions--21st century.
- United States.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Working class--United States--Case studies.
- Working class.
- Working poor--United States--Case studies.
- Working poor.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (349 p.)
- Edition:
- Updated ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study-begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe-puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Foreword By Bruce Springsteen
- Preface To The 2013 Edition
- Someplace Like America: An Introduction
- Snapshots From The Road, 2009
- Part 1. America Begins A Thirty-Year Journey To Nowhere: The 1980's
- Part 2. The Journey Continues: The 1990's
- Part 3. A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2000
- Part 4. Updating People And Places: The Late 2000's
- Part 5. America With The Lid Ripped Off: The Late 2000's
- Part 6. Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America
- Acknowledgments And Credits
- Notes
- Notes:
- "Photographs by Michael S. Williamson".
- "With a foreword by Bruce Springsteen".
- ISBN:
- 9780520956506
- 0520956508
- OCLC:
- 1110715249
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