How it works [electronic resource] : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.

By: Fairbanks, Robert P., II, 1968-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009Description: x, 298 pSubject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.29/1850974811 LOC classification: HV4196.P5 | F347 2009Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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