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Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

by Janet Poppendieck

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In this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. 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.<P>In Sweet Charity?, Poppendieck travels the country to work in soup kitchens and "gleaning" centers, reporting from the frontlines of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these homegrown efforts. We hear from the "clients" who receive meals too small to feed their families; from the enthusiastic volunteers: and from the directors, who wonder if their "successful" programs are in some way perpetuating the problem they are struggling to solve. Hailed as the most significant book on hunger to appear in decades, Sweet Charity? shows how the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on board.

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ISBN:
9780140245561
Subtitle:
Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement
Author:
Poppendieck, Janet
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Social Services & Welfare
Subject:
Philanthropy & Charity
Subject:
Charity
Subject:
Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
Subject:
Sociology - General
Publication Date:
August 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
354
Dimensions:
7.74x5.14x.84 in. .67 lbs.

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