Good Company - Harper, Douglas
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This significantly revised and updated edition contrasts this disappearing lifestyle with the homelessness of the modern era, which has been produced by different economic and sociological forces, all of which have worked against the continuation of the tramp as a social species. The new edition richly documents the transition in our society from "tramps" to urban homelessness and the many social, political, and policy changes attendant to this transformation. It also includes an additional thirty-five previously unpublished photographs from the original research.
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This significantly revised and updated edition contrasts this disappearing lifestyle with the homelessness of the modern era, which has been produced by different economic and sociological forces, all of which have worked against the continuation of the tramp as a social species. The new edition richly documents the transition in our society from "tramps" to urban homelessness and the many social, political, and policy changes attendant to this transformation. It also includes an additional thirty-five previously unpublished photographs from the original research.
A celebration of the tramp way of life in America in the 1930s, which has all but vanished in the modern age.
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Autorenporträt
Douglas Harper is currently professor and chair of sociology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His previous academic appointments include guest professorships at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Bologna, where he taught visual sociology to European students. Harper's current work is a co-authored study of food culture in contemporary Italy. He is also co-author of a forthcoming study of expatriate cultures in Hong Kong. He continues to experiment with photography and sociology, notably in panoramic photos of urban landscapes in several locations around the world.