Inequality, Poverty, and Neoliberal Governance: Activist Ethnography in the Homeless Sheltering Industry
Description:
Lyon-Callo argues that the "root causes" of homelessness are de-industrialization, unemployment and employment in service jobs where wages are too low for workers to afford their own housing, and the high cost of the latter. However, governments and most staff in shelters for the homeless blame residents and try to train them to apply for work and "govern themselves" responsibly more generally, by obeying shelter rules and overcoming personal histories of abuse, addiction and mental illness. Most "guests" themselves then accept this hegemonic paradigm of individual deviance. (from book review http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_journal_of_sociology/v031/31.2archibald.html byW. Peter Archibald)
Type of Resource:
Book
Publication Date:
2004
Location:
Peterborough