non-college educated) workers, especially in Rust Belt cities like Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the events depicted in Evicted take place.ĭesmond, a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” grant, draws on several years of fieldwork in Milwaukee, during which time he gathered an immense about of both quantitative and quantitative data. Reading between the lines, however, this book is about our country’s housing crisis, the criminalization of poverty and erosion of our social safety net, the violence inflicted by property owners-vis-a-vis the state-against the poor, and how structural transformations of our economy devastated low-skill (i.e. The book is about the process of eviction, broken into three parts: the struggle to pay rent, the actual eviction itself, and what happens after eviction. Matthew Desmond, a sociologist and ethnographer at Princeton University, has written a book that is as challenging as it is important.
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