UID:
edocfu_9959226756802883
Format:
1 online resource (317 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-35973-8
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0-520-93727-9
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1-59734-831-7
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9786612359736
Content:
Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Institutions of poverty -- Income generation in the barrios -- The job market -- The experience of low-wage work -- Networks and work -- Illegal routines -- The consequences of illegal work -- Making ends meet -- Making welfare stigma -- The price of poverty.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-22756-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-520-23889-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
DOI:
10.1525/9780520937277
