Ordinary poverty : a little food and cold storage / William DiFazio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DiFazio, William.

Series:

Labor in crisis.

Labor in crisis

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty--United States.

Poverty.

Poor--United States--Case studies.

Poor.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

United States--Economic policy.

United States.

United States--Social policy.

St. John's Bread and Life (Soup kitchen).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and throughout New York City. In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, DiFazio presents the results of welfare reform-from ending entitlements to diminished welfare benefits-through the eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Ordinary Poverty; 2 Soup Kitchen Blues: 1988-1993; 3 Beggars Can't Be Choosers: 1993-2000; 4 The Dialectic of Sister Bernadette: The Limits of Advocacy; 5 Forgetting Poverty: A Seder for Everyone; 6 Conclusion: Making Poverty Extraordinary; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-209) and index.

ISBN:

9781592134588

1592134580

9781592137862

1592137865

OCLC:

806203265