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100 1 $aMaharidge, Dale.
245 10 $aSomeplace like America :$btales from the new Great Depression /$cDale Maharidge ; photographs by Michael S. Williamson ; with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2011.
300 $ax, 244 p., [72] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aTravel to the working-class heart of America, and follow the deepening crises of poverty and homelessness. Starting in 1980, Maharidge and Williamson have investigated the state of the working class. They follow the lives of several families over a thirty-year span to present an intimate and devastating portrait of workers going jobless.
505 0 $aForward by Bruce Springsteen -- Someplace like America: an introduction -- Snapshots from the road, 2009 -- pt. 1. America begins a thirty-year journey to nowhere: the 1980s : On becoming a hobo ; Necropolis ; New timer ; Home sweet tent ; True bottom -- pt. 2. The journey continues: the 1990s : Inspiration: the two-way highway ; Waiting for an explosion ; When Bruce met Jenny -- pt. 3. A nation grows hungrier: 2000 : Hunger in the homes ; The working poor: Maggie and others in Austin ; Mr. Murray on Maggie -- pt. 4. Updating people and places: the late 2000s : Reinduction ; Necropolis: after the apocalypse ; New timer: finding Mr. Heisenberg instead ; Home sweet home ; Maggie: "Am I doing the right thing?" ; Maggie on Mr. Murray -- pt. 5. America with the lid ripped off: the late 2000s : Search and rescue ; New Orleans jazz ; Scapegoats in the sun ; The dark experiment ; The big boys ; Anger in suburban New Jersey -- pt. 6. Rebuilding ourselves, then taking America on a journey to somewhere new : Zen in a crippled New Hampshire mill town ; A woman of the soil in Kansas City ; The phoenix? ; Looking forward, and back.
650 0 $aWorking class$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aWorking poor$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aUnemployed$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0 $aPoverty$zUnited States$vCase studies.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEconomic conditions$y21st century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$y21st century.
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700 1 $aWilliamson, Michael,$d1957-
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