Homeless Families

THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY

Barry Jay Seltser author Donald E Miller author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:1st Dec '93

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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How do homeless people perceive their plight? Specifically, how does their situation affect their sense of personal dignity? In intensive interviews with one hundred adult heads of homeless families, Barry Seltser and Donald Miller ask these questions, previously not dealt with in the growing literature on homelessness. Homeless Families sensitizes readers, challenging them to consider their own moral and social responses to homeless people.
 

"A sensitive, compelling, and deeply moving portrait of Americans on the verge of disappearing into the ranks of the homeless." -- Kai Erikson, coauthor of The Nature of Work: Sociological Perspectives

ISBN: 9780252063275

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm

Weight: 254g

276 pages