Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (Labor In Crisis)

Difazio

ISBN 10: 1592130143 / ISBN 13: 9781592130146

Published by Temple University Press, 2005

About this Item

2005. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (Labor In Crisis)
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592130143
• ISBN 13: 9781592130146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

At St. John's Bread and Life, a soup kitchen in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, more than a thousand people line up for breakfast and lunch five days a week. During the twelve-year era of welfare reform, William DiFazio observed the daily lives of poor people at St. John's and throughout New York City.

In this trenchant and groundbreaking work, DiFazio presents the results of welfare reform—from ending entitlements to diminished welfare benefits—through the eyes and voices of those who were most directly affected by it. Ordinary Poverty concludes with a program to guarantee universal rights to a living wage as a crucial way to end poverty. Ultimately, DiFazio articulates the form a true poor people's movement would take—one that would link the interests of all social movements with the interests of ending poverty.

About the Author

William DiFazio is Professor of Sociology at St. John's University. He is the author of Longshoremen: Community and Resistance on the Brooklyn Waterfront and co-author (with Stanley Aronowitz) of The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work.