More Than Bread: Ethnography of a Soup Kitchen

by Irene Glasser

Book Overview

"More Than Bread "examines life in the dining room of the Tabernacle Soup Kitchen, located in Middle City in a New England state. What happens when one hundred guests, which include single mothers, drug addicts, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and the chronically unemployed, representing diverse age groups and ethnicities, come together in the dining room for several hours each day? Irene Glasser challenges the popular assumption that soup kitchens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817303979
• ISBN13: 9780817303976
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.