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Laddar... No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner Cityav Katherine S. Newman
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Katherine S. Newman, Ford Foundation Professor of Urban Studies at Harvard, focuses much of her research on America's urban poor. In No Shame in My Game, Newman describes the results of her two year research project in Harlem, a project in which Newman and others studied the lives of many of Harlem's working poor. Many findings were surprising and contrary to popular depictions of the poor. Most poor people, Newman found, want to work and spend numerous hours in fruitless searches for work. The book uses exerpts from subjects' own diaries and details the day-to-day lives of the subjects to create a powerful story of the working poor in America. Recommended. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
"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."--Jacket. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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