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100 1 $aShipler, David K.,$d1942-
245 14$aThe working poor :$binvisible in America /$cDavid K. Shipler.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c2004.
300 $axii, 319 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: At the edge of poverty -- Money and its opposite -- Work doesn't work -- Importing the third world -- Harvest of shame -- The daunting workplace -- Sins of the fathers -- Kinship -- Body and mind -- Dreams -- Work works -- Skill and will.
520 $aAn intimate portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse and charges the government with failing to provide adequate housing, health care, and education. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital--each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crisis. And unlike most works on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well--their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.
650 0$aPoor$zUnited States.
650 0$aWorking class$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions.
650 0$aWorking class$zUnited States$xFinance, Personal.
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650 0$aWages$zUnited States.
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650 0$aDebt$zUnited States.
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650 6$aTravailleurs$zÉtats-Unis$xFinances personnelles.
650 6$aCoût et niveau de la vie$zÉtats-Unis.
650 6$aSalaires$zÉtats-Unis.
650 6$aRevenu$zÉtats-Unis.
650 6$aDettes$zÉtats-Unis.
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