No shame in my game : the working poor in the inner city / Katherine S. Newman.
"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 l...
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New York :
Knopf and the Russell Sage Foundation,
1999.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Working lives
- The invisible poor
- Getting a job in the inner city
- No shame in (this) game
- School and skill in the low-wage world
- Getting stuck, moving up
- Family values
- Who's in, who's out?
- What we can do for the working poor.