THE CONSTRUCTION OF POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS IN US CITIES
- 1 October 1996
- journal article
- Published by Annual Reviews in Annual Review of Anthropology
- Vol. 25 (1) , 411-435
- https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.25.1.411
Abstract
▪ Abstract The review focuses on analyses of the creation of culture among poor populations in the United States whose lives have been structured by residing at the center of the global economy. Literature is examined concerning the changing construction of labor, space, time, and identity in the new poverty. Throughout, the review examines the generation of poverty and questions of gender, race, political mobilization, and resistance. This outline of current research provides a framework for an analysis of the violence and conflict generated by the lowering of wages and the reduction of leisure time.Keywords
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