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  Title

  Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide

  Author

  Shumsky, Neil L., 1944-  

  Publisher:

  Greenwood,

  Pub date:

  c2012.

  Pages:

  xxix, 389 p. :

  ISBN:

  9780313377006

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HV4504 .S58 2012	1	Reference Book	Reference Stacks

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  ISBN:

  9780313377006 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0313377006 (cloth : alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  9780313377013 (ebook)

  ISBN:

  0313377014 (ebook)

  Personal Author:

  Shumsky, Neil L., 1944-

  Title:

  Homelessness : a documentary and reference guide / Neil Larry Shumsky.

  Publication info:

  Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2012.

  Physical description:

  xxix, 389 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

  Series Statement:

  (Documentary and reference guides)

  Contents:

  pt. I. Words and numbers : Words ; Numbers -- pt. II. Hoboes, tramps, and bums, 1790-1930 : Ben Reitman defines hobo, tramp, and bum ; Jack London explains "the rods" ; Train jumping ; A migrant farm worker ; The extent of the problem, 1890-1925 ; Country lodgings ; The stem, or main stem ; The hobo jungle ; "Tramp-speak" and the hobo subculture ; Hobo songs ; Hobo politics ; The hobo college ; Hobohemia disappears -- pt. III. Migrants and transients, 1930-1960 : On the farm ; In the city ; Bonus army ; FERA and FTP ; Bum brigade ; Squatters ; Weedpatch camp ; Hooverville ; Picking grapes in Lodi ; Arts and culture ; Liquidating the Federal Transient Program -- pt. IV. Street people, bag ladies, and homeless people : Defining homelessness and counting homeless people : Charles Dickens coins the word ; Congress defines homeless ; Mitch Snyder claims "millions" ; HUD disagrees sharply ; Making sense of the conflict ; The number of homeless -- Who are the homeless? : An overview of the homeless population today ; Special populations of homeless people ; Homeless children and their families ; Homeless veterans ; Homeless people in rural areas ; Homeless people of color ; Homeless Latinos and a different perspective -- Contending with homelessness : Staying alive: homeless people cope ; Housing for the homeless ; Criminalizing the homeless ; Washington takes the lead.

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  Subject term:

  Homelessness--United States--History--Sources.

  Subject term:

  Homelessness--United States--History.

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