Homeless Families: THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY - Softcover

Seltser, Barry Jay; Miller, Donald E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252063279 ISBN 13: 9780252063275

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.
 

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From the Back Cover:

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 families, Barry Seltser and Donald Miller asks these questions, previously not dealt with in the growing literature on homelessness.

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0252063279
• ISBN 13: 9780252063275
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276