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Josephine Ensign recounts the history of the unfortunate souls of Seattle but also of their reputation: the poor seen as being lazy and vicious and how their treatment—or lack thereof—often through physical, sexual and emotional abuse relates to the boom and bust cycles of the city, its decision-making processes and most importantly: its system-level failures. Based on a wide variety of sources—ethnographic data gathered through full immersion and observation, historical archives, in-depth in...