| Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community Contributor(s): Wagner, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 036715465X ISBN-13: 9780367154653 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 362.509 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book shows how the poor often become homeless through resistance to the discipline of the workplace, authoritarian families, and the bureaucratic social welfare system. It also shows how street people develop their own self-consciousness, culture, and alternative community. |