Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide

Neil Larry Shumsky

The terms historically used to describe them include "bums," "hoboes," "migrants," "street people," "transients," "tramps," and "vagrants." Just as varied as the words we have used to describe them are the reasons many people have found themselves living in the land of opportunity without permanent residence. The book considers homelessness and its distinctive character in three periods of American history: the era of tramps and hoboes in the late 1800s-early 1900s, the era of transients and migrants in the 1930s, and the era of homeless and "street" people in the last 40 years. It clarifies the multiple meanings of the word "homeless" today and demonstrates that homelessness is a symptom of more than one problem, leading to confusion about the issue of homelessness and hampering attempts to reduce its occurrence. Author Neil Larry Shumsky, PhD, also postulates that the treatment of homelessness in England before the colonization of North America laid the foundation of pervasive American attitudes and practices.

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書名 Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide
著作者等 Shumsky, Neil L.
シリーズ名 Documentary and reference guides
出版元 Greenwood
刊行年月 c2012
ページ数 xxix, 389 p.
大きさ 29 cm
ISBN 9780313377006
NCID BB09770879
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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