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.