No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely. --The Philadelphia InquirerIn No 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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-55865-7
- EAN: 9780307558657
- Produktnummer: 15736653
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'946 KB
Über den Autor
Katherine Newman is a professor at Harvard University.
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