Experiencing Poverty

Voices from the Bottom

• Author(s): D. Stanley Eitzen, Kelly Eitzen Smith,
• Publisher: Thomson, Wadsworth
• Pages: 212
• ISBN_10: 0534529585
  ISBN_13: 9780534529581
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Economic History , Science / General , Social Science / Ethnology , Social Science / Sociology / General , Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness ,

Description:... EXPERIENCING POVERTY is unique in its comprehensive understanding of poverty. The readings incorporate the experiences of the impoverished in many situations, including people who are homeless, housed, working, non-working, single, married, urban, rural, born in the United States, first generation Americans, young and old. Most significantly, the crucial dimensions of inequality - race and gender - are interwoven throughout the selected readings.