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050 00 $aHC110.P6$bS48 2004
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100 1 $aShipler, David K.,$d1942-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82213134
245 14 $aThe working poor :$binvisible in America /$cDavid K. Shipler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2004.
300 $axii, 319 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: At the Edge of Poverty -- $gCh. 1.$tMoney and Its Opposite -- $gCh. 2.$tWork Doesn't Work -- $gCh. 3.$tImporting the Third World -- $gCh. 4.$tHarvest of Shame -- $gCh. 5.$tThe Daunting Workplace -- $gCh. 6.$tSins of the Fathers -- $gCh. 7.$tKinship -- $gCh. 8.$tBody and Mind -- $gCh. 9.$tDreams -- $gCh. 10.$tWork Works -- $gCh. 11.$tSkill and Will.
520 1 $a"As David K. Shipler makes clear in this study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology - hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking, problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor - white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy." "We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital - each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crises. And unlike most works on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well - their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPoor$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009391
650 0 $aWorking class$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aWorking class$zUnited States$xFinance, Personal.
650 0 $aCost and standard of living$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101807
650 0 $aWages$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113323
650 0 $aIncome$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104338
650 0 $aDebt$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009122933
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