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How it works recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia /

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Main Author: Fairbanks, Robert P., II, 1968-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Self-help housing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Self-help housing > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Recovery movement > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Social settlements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Welfare recipients > Housing > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Substance abuse treatment facilities > Government policy > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Informal sector (Economics) > Political aspects > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) > Social conditions > 21st century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The making of AHAD
  • "How it works": the basic architecture of the Kensington recovery house system
  • The art of building programmatic space
  • The persistent (failures) of the recovery house system: low wage, labor, relapse, and the wreckage of the past
  • Unruly spaces of managed persistence
  • Statecraft/self-craft: policy transfer in the recovery house movement
  • Conclusion.

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