Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to life-through shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysis-the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. The story begins in 1980, when the authors joined forces to cover the America being ignored by the mainstream media-people living on the margins and losing their jobs as a result of deindustrialization. Since then, Maharidge and Williamson have traveled more than half a million miles to investigate the state of the working class (winning a Pulitzer Prize in the process). In Someplace Like America, they follow the lives of several families over the thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless. This brilliant and essential study-begun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastrophe-puts a human face on today's grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.

Poverty -- United States -- Case studies. --- Unemployed -- United States -- Case studies. --- United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century. --- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century. --- Working class -- United States -- Case studies. --- Working poor -- United States -- Case studies. --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Poverty --- Unemployed --- United States --- Working class --- Working poor --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Jobless people --- Out-of-work people --- Unemployed people --- Unemployed workers --- Destitution --- Employment --- Poor --- Social classes --- Labor --- Labor supply --- Persons --- Unemployment --- Right to labor --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- E-books --- anthropology. --- biographical. --- blue collar. --- career. --- current events. --- devastating portrait. --- economic numbers. --- economics. --- engaging. --- family. --- history. --- journalism. --- labor industrial relations. --- labor relations. --- middle class. --- money and power. --- money. --- photobook. --- photography. --- political science. --- political. --- politics. --- poverty and inequality. --- poverty. --- social history. --- social issues. --- social justice. --- social science. --- sociology. --- stunning photographs. --- thoughtful analysis. --- unemployment. --- urban decay. --- vivid stories. --- working class america.