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  Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression (University of California Press) (Hardback) By (author) Dale Maharidge, Foreword by Bruce Springsteen, Photographs by Michael S. Williamson

  

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  Short Description for Someplace Like AmericaTake us to the working-class heart of America by providing the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. This title presents an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless.
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  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Published: 06 June 2011
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Poverty & Unemployment | Social Classes | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Economics | Macroeconomics | Labour Economics
  • ISBN 13: 9780520262478 ISBN 10: 0520262476
  • Sales rank: 55,827

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• 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.