Someplace Like America
In Someplace Like America, writer Dale Maharidge and photographer Michael S. Williamson take us to the working-class heart of America, bringing to lifeathrough shoe leather reporting, memoir, vivid stories, stunning photographs, and thoughtful analysisathe 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 mediaapeople 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 studyabegun in the trickle-down Reagan years and culminating with the recent banking catastropheaputs a human face on todayas grim economic numbers. It also illuminates the courage and resolve with which the next generation faces the future.... Financial Services Advisor, March 1, 2000. page 86 Tate on labor unions: Broadcast on ABC-TVa#39;s Good Morning America, January 31, 2008. ... 87 Citia#39;s a Live Richlya campaign and the boom in second mortgages: Louise Story, aHome Equity Frenzy Was a Bank Ad Come True, a ... Research Brief, December 2007, http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/retail/walmartilivingwageipolicies07.pdf. page 87 Waltonanbsp;...
| Title | : | Someplace Like America |
| Author | : | Dale Maharidge |
| Publisher | : | Univ of California Press - 2013-05-14 |
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