How it works : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.
- Title
- How it works : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.
- Published by
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 298 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 'How it Works' examines the phenomenon of the 'recovery house movement' in Philadelphia. Often unlicensed and unregulated, these facilities provide shelter for recovering addicts and alcoholics using abandoned row houses in the most deprived areas of the city.
- Uniform title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Alcoholics > Rehabilitation > Philadelphia
- Informal sector (Economics) > Political aspects > Philadelphia
- Kensington (Philadelphia, Pa.) > Social conditions > 21st century
- Recovery movement > Political aspects > Philadelphia
- Self-help housing > Philadelphia
- Self-help housing > Political aspects > Philadelphia
- Social settlements > Philadelphia
- Substance abuse treatment facilities > Government policy > Philadelphia
- Welfare recipients > Housing > Philadelphia
- 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
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-292) and index.
- Processing action (note)
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