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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	HV4196.P5 F347 2009		AVAILABLE

Author	Fairbanks, Robert P., II, 1968-
Title	How it works : recovering citizens in post-welfare Philadelphia / Robert P. Fairbanks II.
OCLC	298128773
ISBN	9780226234083 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	9780226234090 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0226234088 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0226234096 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publisher	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Description	x, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/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 century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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