1st Edition
Outposts of the Forgotten Socially Terminal People in Slum Hotels and Single Occupancy Tenements
By Harvey Alan Siegal
Copyright 1978
235 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
1: The Scene and Its Setting; 2: The Conceptual Context of the S.R.O. World; 3: A Descriptive Portrait of the S.R.O. World; 4: The Caretakers: Helpers and Exploiters of the S.R.O. World; 5: The Social Life of an S.R.O.; 6: Summary and Conclusions: The S.R.O. World and Beyond
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Harvey Alan Siegal
