{"product_id":"sweet-charity-emergency-food-and-the-end-of-entitlement-paperback","title":"Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Poppendieck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this era of eroding commitment to government sponsored welfare programs, voluntarism and private charity have become the popular, optimistic solutions to poverty and hunger. The resurgence of charity has to be a good thing, doesn't it? No, says sociologist \u003cb\u003eJanet Poppendieck\u003c\/b\u003e, not when stopgap charitable efforts replace consistent public policy, and poverty continues to grow.In \u003cb\u003eSweet Charity\u003c\/b\u003e?, Poppendieck travels the country to work in soup kitchens and \"gleaning\" centers, reporting from the frontlines of America's hunger relief programs to assess the effectiveness of these homegrown efforts. We hear from the \"clients\" who receive meals too small to feed their families; from the enthusiastic volunteers; and from the directors, who wonder if their \"successful\" programs are in some way perpetuating the problem they are struggling to solve. Hailed as the most significant book on hunger to appear in decades, \u003cb\u003eSweet Charity\u003c\/b\u003e? shows how the drive to end poverty has taken a wrong turn with thousands of well-meaning volunteers on board.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Poppendieck\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of \u003cb\u003eBreadlines Knee Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 7.74 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46531345088711,"sku":"9780140245561","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/9149\/4343\/files\/e8ff0f3b5d6b17e3439a12916d2c1652.webp?v=1778540861","url":"https:\/\/11-59-2042.myshopify.com\/products\/sweet-charity-emergency-food-and-the-end-of-entitlement-paperback","provider":"11:59pm","version":"1.0","type":"link"}