Someplace like America tales from the new great depression /

Maharidge, Dale.

Someplace like America tales from the new great depression / Dale Maharidge : photographs by Michael S. Williamson ; foreword by Bruce Springsteen. - Updatedition. edition. with a new pref. and afterword. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 in



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Working class--United States--Case studies.
Working poor--United States--Case studies.
Unemployed--United States--Case studies.
Poverty--United States--Case studies.


Electronic Books.

HD8072 / .S664 2013