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Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People

By David A. Snow , Leon Anderson

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0520079892, 9780520079892
Open Library ID
OL21557565M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1267528 bytes)
Pages
405\227
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

David Snow and Leon Anderson show us the wretched face of homelessness in late twentieth-century America in countless cities across the nation. Through hundreds of hours of interviews, participant observation, and random tracking of homeless people through social service agencies in Austin, Texas. Snow and Anderson reveal who the homeless are, how they live, and why they have ended up on the streets. Debunking current stereotypes of the homeless. Down on Their Luck sketches a portrait of men and women who are highly adaptive, resourceful, and pragmatic. Their survival is a tale of human resilience and determination, not one of frailty and disability.

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