Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Newman, Katherine S. |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 4/25/2000 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
“Powerful and poignant…. Newman’s message is clear and timely.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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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 a paycheck and shunning the welfare system, arguing that even low-paying jobs give order to their lives.
No Shame in My Game gives voice to a misrepresented segment of today’s society, and is sure to spark dialogue over the issues surrounding poverty, working and welfare.
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