ISBN:
9780520956506
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0520956508
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129947652X
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9781299476523
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Edition:
Updated ed. with a new pref. and afterword
Parallel Title:
Print version Someplace Like America
DDC:
305.5620973
Keywords:
Working class Case studies
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United States
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Working poor Case studies
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United States
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Unemployed Case studies
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United States
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Poverty Case studies
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United States
;
Poverty Case studies
;
Working poor Case studies
;
Unemployed Case studies
;
Working class Case studies
;
Poverty Case studies
;
Unemployed Case studies
;
Working class Case studies
;
Working poor Case studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Social Classes
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Economic history
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Poverty
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Social conditions
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Unemployed
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Working class
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Working poor
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Case studies
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United States Economic conditions
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21st century
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United States Social conditions
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21st century
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United States
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United States Social conditions 21st century
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United States Economic conditions 21st century
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United States Social conditions 21st century
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United States Economic conditions 21st century
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Case studies
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
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 in
Note:
Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on print version record
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