There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Finally, she read and signed a document stating that she consented “freely and without coercion” to the procedure she’d be undergoing—by which point she was desperate to get it over with. A surprising number of them, she discovered, weren’t suffering from some mysterious illness but were simply beaten down by life. She had no intention of telling Derick the truth about her car. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).