Sweet charity? : emergency food and the end of entitlement / Janet Poppendieck.

By:

Poppendieck, Janet, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1998.Description: x, 354 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0670880205
9780670880201

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.8/83/0973 21

LOC classification:

HV 696 P831s 1998

Contents:

Ch. 1. Charity for All -- Ch. 2. Who Eats Emergency Food? -- Ch. 3. The Rise of Emergency Food -- Ch. 4. Institutionalization: From Shoestring to Stability -- Ch. 5. The Uses of Emergency Food -- Ch. 6. The Seductions of Charity -- Ch. 7. What's Wrong with Emergency Food? The Seven Deadly "Ins" -- Ch. 8. Charity and Dignity -- Ch. 9. The Ultimate Band-Aid.

Summary: The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow. In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck goes behind the scenes of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these home-grown efforts and to track the shift away from entitlements in the nation's response to poverty and hunger." "Traveling the country to work in soup kitchens and gleaning centers, the author reports from the front lines. We hear from the "clients, " who endure endless humiliations as they receive meals too small to feed their families; from the well-meaning volunteers, whose enthusiasm cannot overcome the underlying causes of all the misery they witness; and from the directors, who find that their programs are becoming more and more "successful" but wonder if they are not in some way contributing to the very problem they are working so hard to solve.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	HV 696 P831s 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000068015

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Ch. 1. Charity for All --
Ch. 2. Who Eats Emergency Food? --
Ch. 3. The Rise of Emergency Food --
Ch. 4. Institutionalization: From Shoestring to Stability --
Ch. 5. The Uses of Emergency Food --
Ch. 6. The Seductions of Charity --
Ch. 7. What's Wrong with Emergency Food? The Seven Deadly "Ins" --
Ch. 8. Charity and Dignity --
Ch. 9. The Ultimate Band-Aid.

The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist Janet Poppendieck, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow. In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck goes behind the scenes of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these home-grown efforts and to track the shift away from entitlements in the nation's response to poverty and hunger." "Traveling the country to work in soup kitchens and gleaning centers, the author reports from the front lines. We hear from the "clients, " who endure endless humiliations as they receive meals too small to feed their families; from the well-meaning volunteers, whose enthusiasm cannot overcome the underlying causes of all the misery they witness; and from the directors, who find that their programs are becoming more and more "successful" but wonder if they are not in some way contributing to the very problem they are working so hard to solve.

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