Feeding the Crisis
Maggie Dickinson
(Author)
Description
Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States.
Product Details
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Publish Date | November 19, 2019 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780520307674 |
| Dimensions | 8.1 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.6 pounds |
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Reviews
and labor policy in America."-- "Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies"
"Dickinson unravels a narrative that can lead others to understand the bind that hungry families face each day and perhaps lead to social change."-- "Food, Culture & Society"
"Feeding the Crisis offers compelling and important contributions to the anthropology of work, highlighting the urgent need for both scholars and policymakers to understand how food access and the broader emergency food system are connected to the labor market, welfare reform, and public health interventions."-- "Exertions"
"Feeding the Crisis offers compelling and important contributions to the anthropology of work, highlighting the urgent need for both scholars and policymakers to understand how food access and the broader emergency food system are connected to the labor market, welfare reform, and public health interventions."
-- "Exertions""Timely and important. . . . [The book's] main strength lies in its clarity in characterizing America's food safety net for a broad audience, making it an excellent text for those working in NGOs and policy making in the fields of social assistance, poverty and social exclusion."-- "Anthropology Book Forum"
"Dickinson's engrossing, clear and important contribution to the study of comparative welfare reform points to an urgent need to expand the range of options that are politically thinkable in the present."-- "PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review"
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