![]() ![]() ![]() Philadelphia Inquirer: Sociologist chronicles tenuous lives of fugitives - "Goffman, 32, spent six years with the men and their families in a poor, minority Philadelphia neighborhood she calls Sixth Street to protect its identity. Author of the new book, " On The Run: Fugitive Life In An American City." From Tom's Reading List Tom Ashbrook GuestsĪlice Goffman, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This hour On Point: the underground life of America’s most heavily-policed communities. To an urban economy and culture so shadowed by police and incarceration that it lives “on the run.” To a system that finds millions living as fugitives in their own neighborhoods. Sociologist Alice Goffman has gone there. A big part of it grows from tough neighborhoods where the formal economy is so thin and the hand of the law is so heavy that it’s hard to stay on the straight and narrow. Maybe $2 trillion in off-the-books work and trade. The cover of Alice Goffman's "On The Run" (Courtesy University of Chicago Press).Īmerica’s underground economy sprawls far and wide now. ![]() The underground economy where drug war and police lockdown meet urban America. ![]() This program was originally broadcast on June 10, 2014. Facebook Email This article is more than 6 years old. ![]()
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