Format:
Online-Ressource (xix, 295 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520238893
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0520227565
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Notes and Acknowledgments; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Institutions of Poverty; 2. Income Generation in the Barrios; PART II: WORK; 3. The Job Market; 4. The Experience of Low-Wage Work; 5. Networks and Work; PART III: CRIME; 6. Illegal Routines; 7. The Consequences of Illegal Work; PART IV: WELFARE; 8. Making Ends Meet; 9. Making Welfare Stigma; PART V: CONCLUSION: WORK, CRIME, AND WELFARE; 10. The Price of Poverty; Appendix: Methods of This Study; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520238893
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Price of Poverty : Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio
Language:
English
