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2003056191 |
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030612s2004 nyu b 001 0 eng |
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2003056191 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0375408908 (alk. paper) |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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pcc |
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EY8Z |
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| Classification number |
HC110.P6 |
| Item number |
S48 2004 |
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| Classification number |
305.5/69/0973 |
| Edition number |
21 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Shipler, David K., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1942- |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The working poor : |
| Remainder of title |
invisible in America / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
David K. Shipler. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Knopf, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 319 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Publisher description: âMost of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, âworking poor,â should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America.â - from the Introduction 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 nationâs 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 wellâtheir 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. |
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Poor |
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United States. |
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Working poor. |
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Working class |
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United States |
| General subdivision |
Economic conditions. |
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Working class |
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United States |
| General subdivision |
Finance, Personal. |
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Cost and standard of living |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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Wages |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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Income |
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United States. |
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Debt |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 948 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC); SERIES PART DESIGNATOR (RLIN) |
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