Poor Americans: how the white poor live.
By: Edited by Marc Pilisuk and Phyllis Pilisuk.
Contributors: Pilisuk, Phyllis, joint comp.
Publisher: Distributed by Aldine Pub. Co.
Published: 1971
Place of publication: [Chicago]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Poor -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Poverty -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Bibliography: p. 12.
"The essays in this book originally appeared in Trans-action magazine."
Table of contents: title: How the white poor live, by M. Pilisuk and P. Pilisuk.; title: The culture of poverty, by O. Lewis.; title: Life in Appalachia; title: the case of Hugh McCaslin, by R. Coles.; title: Labor waste in New York: rural exploitation and migrant workers, by W. H. Friedland.; title: The serpent-handling religions of West Virginia, by N. L. Gerrard.; title: White gangs, by W. B. Miller.; title: Homeless men, by D. Pittman.; title: How teachers learn to help children fail, by E. Fuchs.; title: Becky and the Telegraph Avenue life style, by M. Pilisuk and others.; title: Medical ghettos, by A. L. Strauss.; title: The strange case of public dependency, M. Rein.