Hobos, hustlers, and backsliders
Subtitle: homeless in San Francisco
By: Teresa Gowan
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780816648696; 9780816669677
Subjects: Homeless persons; Homeless men; Homelessness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Urban ethnography beyond the culture wars; title: Managing homelessness in the United States; title: The street : watch out, San Francisco! Ain't gonna get no peace; title: Moorings : some other kind of life; title: Word on the street : no one loves a loser; title: The new hobos; title: Rabble management : like I need more drugs in my life?; title: The homeless archipelago : a little room for myself; title: The old runaround : class cleansing in San Francisco; title: The road to Nowheresville.