Checkerboard Square: Culture And Resistance In A Homeless Community / Edition 1

by David Wagner

Overview

This book shows how the poor often become homeless through resistance to the discipline of the workplace, authoritarian families, and the bureaucratic social welfare system. It also shows how street people develop their own self-consciousness, culture, and alternative community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367154653
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/19/2021
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.62(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Wagner is associate professor of social work and sociology at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of two previous books, including Checkerboard Square (Westview, 1993), winner of the 1993 C. Wright Mills Award.

Table of Contents

1. Beyond the Conventional Wisdom on the Homeless 2. Voices from Checkerboard Square Part One: Homelessness and the Culture of Resistance 3. The Family: No Haven 4. "Get a Job": The Limits of the Work Ethic 5. Institutions of Control: Social Welfare as Contested Terrain Part Two: The Social Organization of the Streets 6. Alternative Institutions and Movements Among Street People 7. Subcultures and Patterns of Association Among Street People 8. Checkerboard Square and a Radical Critique of Homelessness