Checkerboard Square Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community

"Checkerboard Square" offers an ethnographic portrait of the poor that reveals their struggles not only to survive but also to create communities on the streets and to develop social movements on their own behalf. Hardly passive victims, the homeless of "Checkerboard Square" survive within an alternative street culture, with its own norms and social organization, in a world often hidden from the view of researchers, journalists, and social workers. David Wagner explains why the crisis of homelessness is not only about the lack of services, housing, and jobs, but a result of the very structure of the dominant institutions of work, family, and public social welfare.Wagner, David is the author of 'Checkerboard Square Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community' with ISBN 9780813315867 and ISBN 0813315867.