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Outposts of the Forgotten : Socially Terminal People in Slum Hotels and Single Occupancy Tenements / Harvey Alan Siegal

Publisher	(London : Taylor and Francis)
Year	2017
Edition	First edition.
Authors	*Siegal, Harvey Alan author

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Links to the text	Library Off-campus access			OB00184303		Taylor & Francis eBooks Archive Collection (電子ブック)	135131923X

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Contents	Chapter 1 The Scene and Its Setting / Harvey Alan Siegal Edward Sagarin chapter 2 The Conceptual Context of the S.R.O. World / Harvey Alan Siegal Edward Sagarin chapter 3 A Descriptive Portrait of the S.R.O. World / Harvey Alan Siegal Edward Sagarin chapter 4 The Caretakers: Helpers and Exploiters of the S.R.O. World / Harvey Alan Siegal Edward Sagarin chapter 5 The Social Life of an S.R.O. / Harvey Alan Siegal Edward Sagarin chapter 6 Summary and Conclusions: The S.R.O. World and Beyond / Harvey Alan Siegal Edward Sagarin
Notes	"The single-room occupancy (SRO) tenements and welfare hotels located throughout New York City, but concentrated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, provided housing for many of society's troubled, marginal members in the late 1970s, when this book was originally published. The predominant population of these buildings was old, non-white, unemployed, disabled, and in poor health. What distinguished this community, however, was not that it is was part of a ghetto or slum, but that it was composed of poor people living amidst affluence, combining elements of both the law-abiding and criminal worlds.Institutionally, the SRO tenement world described in this book is seen as a half-way area between open society and the total institution. Without the support and control available in the SROs, confinement in a total institution would be a certainty for many of the residents. This book, a participant-observer journal as well as an ethnographic study, suggests an alternative to institutionalization.As Edward Sagarin notes in his preface, Siegal does not lack compassion for the sufferings of the people, but the focus is on the descriptions of their lives. Outposts of the Forgotten documents the circumstances of some of New York's forgotten residents."--Provided by publisher OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record HTTP:URL=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351319249 Pub. note=Click here to view. Information=Taylor & Francis
Subjects	LCSH:Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies All Subject Search LCSH:Living alone -- New York (State) -- New York All Subject Search LCSH:Alienation (Social psychology) -- Case studies All Subject Search LCSH:Single-room occupancy hotels -- New York (State) -- New York All Subject Search
Classification	LCC:HV4046.N6 DC:362.5
ID	8000085846
ISBN	135131923X