Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People
Author:   David A. Snow ,  Leon Anderson
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520079892


Pages:   405
Publication Date:   12 February 1993
Format:   Paperback
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Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People


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David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas. Snow and Anderson reveal who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. Debunking current stereotypes of the homeless. Down on Their Luck sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic. Their survival is a tale of human resilience and determination, not one of frailty and disability.

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Author:   David A. Snow ,  Leon Anderson
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780520079892


ISBN 10:   0520079892
Pages:   405
Publication Date:   12 February 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface PART ONE INTRODUCTION 1. Studying the Homeless 2. A Grounded Typology of Homeless Street People PART TWO LIFE ON THE STREETS: DAILY ROUTINES AND SURVIVAL STRATEGIES 3. The Subculture of Street Life 4. Wage Labor and Institutionalized Assistance 5. Shadow Work 6. Tenuous Ties 7. Salvaging the Self PART THREE DYNAMICS OF HOMELESSNESS 8. Pathways to the Street 9. Homeless Careers Epilogue Notes References Index

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