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Outposts of the Forgotten is an ethnographic study of the social organization of welfare hotel tenants on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The author describes the economic and political history of New York City's welfare hotels, tracing their early development as a response to the need for cheap housing of unattached urban groups and their contemporary function as community half-way houses for the poor, the deviant, the socially marginal. Siegal argues that, increasingly, these hotels are servicing individuals whose former alternative would have been limited to custodially oriented institutions. --B. Jouce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature. --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature. --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology -The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature.- --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology

-The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature.- --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature. --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature. --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology Outposts of the Forgotten is an ethnographic study of the social organization of welfare hotel tenants on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The author describes the economic and political history of New York City's welfare hotels, tracing their early development as a response to the need for cheap housing of unattached urban groups and their contemporary function as community half-way houses for the poor, the deviant, the socially marginal. Siegal argues that, increasingly, these hotels are servicing individuals whose former alternative would have been limited to custodially oriented institutions. --B. Jouce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology

Outposts of the Forgotten is an ethnographic study of the social organization of welfare hotel tenants on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The author describes the economic and political history of New York City's welfare hotels, tracing their early development as a response to the need for cheap housing of unattached urban groups and their contemporary function as community half-way houses for the poor, the deviant, the socially marginal. Siegal argues that, increasingly, these hotels are servicing individuals whose former alternative would have been limited to custodially oriented institutions. --B. Jouce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology

The sociological study of s.r.o. (single room occupancy) hotels has been badly neglected. . . . The author's analysis of the forces that have shaped these communities of isolates and deviants is an important contribution to the s.r.o. literature. --B. Joyce Stephens, Contemporary Sociology

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Harvey Alan Siegal was professor in the department of community health at the Wright State University School of Medicine and director of the Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research.

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