| The lens of economic globalization and global capitalism was used to explore economic disparities and homelessness in Marin County, California, one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. Applied research was conducted at a homeless shelter using observational and ethnographic methods. Research included documentation regarding the increase in homelessness and the increase in economic disparity both nationally and locally. The effects that global capitalism has on the human and social condition of economic disparity and specifically, on the homeless or shelter-poor population was explored. The thesis reflects a profound distrust of the current economic system, and a hope that local grassroots movements can ameliorate the situation by resistance, and constructive local initiatives. |
