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the working poor in the inner city

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An edition of No shame in my game (1999)

No shame in my game

the working poor in the inner city

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In No Shame in My Game, anthropologist Katherine Newman presents a view of inner-city poverty radically different from that commonly accepted. The all-too-prevalent picture we get of the poor today - in the media, in the political sphere, and in scholarly studies - is of alienated minorities living in big-city ghettos, lacking in values and family structure, criminally inclined, and permanently dependent on government handouts.

What Newman reveals, however - as she focuses on the working poor in Harlem, one of the country's most depressed urban areas - is a community of people who are committed to earning a living, struggling to support themselves and their families on minimum-wage dead-end jobs, and clinging to the dignity of a regular paycheck, no matter how meager.

For two years, Professor Newman and her assistants followed people in Harlem - from work to school to the streets to their homes - and spent hundreds of hours talking to employees, and their bosses and supervisors, their friends and families. From observations and interviews, we come to understand not only the essential contribution that low-wage earners make to the survival of poor households, but also the ways in which these jobs affect young people's attitudes, prospects, and self-image.

Most powerfully, we listen as low-wage earners speak about their jobs, their ambitions, and their values - especially their devotion to family and belief in the work ethic.

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Pages
388

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No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
April 25, 2000, Vintage
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No shame in my game: the working poor in the inner city
1999, Knopf and the Russell Sage Foundation
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-376) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.5/0973/091732
Library of Congress
HV4045 .N48 1999, HV 4045 N48 1999

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Pagination
xix, 388 p. ;
Number of pages
388

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OL376321M
ISBN 10
0375402543
LCCN
98038244
OCLC/WorldCat
39654726
Library Thing
173951
Goodreads
1234179

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