Difference Incorporated

The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States
Craig Willse


Paperback | Dec 2015 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816693481 | 224pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$40.99, NZD$47.99
Hardback | Dec 2015 | University of Minnesota Press | 9780816693474 | 240pp | 216x140mm | RFB | AUD$141.99, NZD$169.99

 

It is all too easy to assume that social service programs respond to homelessness, seeking to prevent and understand it. "The Value of Homelessness," however, argues that homelessness today is an effect of social services and sciences, which shape not only what counts as such but what will--or ultimately won't--be done about it.Through a history of