No Shame in My Game The Working Poor in the Inner City

Name: No Shame in My Game The Working Poor in the Inner City
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ISBN: 9780375703799

ISBN-10: 0375703799

ISBN-13: 9780375703799

Edition: 2000

Authors: Katherine S. Newman

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"Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer InNo Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs. By intimately following the lives of nearly 300 inner-city workers and job seekers for two yearsin Harlem, Newman explores a side of poverty often ignored by media and politicians--the working poor. The working poor find dignity in earning a paycheck and shunning the welfare system,…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface



Working Lives



The Invisible Poor



Getting a Job in the Inner City



No Shame in (This) Game



School and Skill in the Low-Wage World



Getting Stuck, Moving Up



Family Values



Who's In, Who's Out?



What We Can Do for the Working Poor


Epilogue


Appendixes


Notes


Index