Someplace Like America [Elektronisk resurs] Tales from the New Great Depression.

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Someplace Like America: An Introduction; Snapshots from the Road, 2009; Part 1: America Begins a Thirty-Year Journey to Nowhere: The 1980s; Chapter 1. On Becoming a Hobo; Chapter 2. Necropolis; Chapter 3. New Timer; Chapter 4. Home Sweet Tent; Chapter 5. True Bottom; Part 2: The Journey Continues: The 1990s; Chapter 6. Inspiration: The Two-Way Highway; Chapter 7. Waiting for an Explosion; Chapter 8. When Bruce Met Jenny; Part 3: A Nation Grows Hungrier: 2000; Chapter 9. Hunger in the Homes. 
• Chapter 10. The Working Poor: Maggie and Others in AustinChapter 11. Mr. Murray on Maggie; Part 4: Updating People and Places: The Late 2000s; Chapter 12. Reinduction; Chapter 13. Necropolis: After the Apocalypse; Chapter 14. New Timer: Finding Mr. Heisenberg Instead; Chapter 15. Home Sweet Tent Home; Chapter 16. Maggie: "Am I Doing the Right Thing?"; Chapter 17. Maggie on Mr. Murray; Part 5: America with the Lid Ripped Off: The Late 2000s; Chapter 18. Search and Rescue; Chapter 19. New Orleans Jazz; Chapter 20. Scapegoats in the Sun; Chapter 21. The Dark Experiment; Chapter 22. The Big Boys. 
• Chapter 23. Anger in Suburban New JerseyPart 6: Rebuilding Ourselves, Then Taking America on a Journey to Somewhere New; Chapter 24. Zen in a Crippled New Hampshire Mill Town; Chapter 25. A Woman of the Soil in Kansas City; Chapter 26. The Phoenix?; Chapter 27. Looking Forward - and Back; Coda; Acknowledgments and Credits; Notes. 

• 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 investiga 

Ämnesord

Poverty -- United States -- Case studies. 

Unemployed -- United States -- Case studies. 

United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. 

United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century. 

Working class -- United States -- Case studies. 

Working poor -- United States -- Case studies. 

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Electronic books.  (LCSH)

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HD8072.5 .M33 2011 (LCC)

305.5/620973 (DDC)

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