TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shipler,David K.
TI  - The working poor: invisible in America 
SN  - 0375408908
AV  - HC110.P6 S48 2004
U1  - 305.5/69/0973 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - Poor
KW  - United States
KW  - Working class
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Finance, Personal
KW  - Cost and standard of living
KW  - Wages
KW  - Income
KW  - Debt
KW  - Personal finance
KW  - Pauvres
KW  - Travailleurs
KW  - Finances personnelles
KW  - Salaires
KW  - Revenu
KW  - Dettes
KW  - 71.68 socially handicapped
KW  - bcl
KW  - fast
KW  - Armut
KW  - gnd
KW  - Schulden
KW  - Arbeiterklasse
KW  - Armen (personen)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Arbeiders
KW  - Leefsituatie
KW  - sears
KW  - Salaries, wages, etc
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: At the edge of poverty -- Money and its opposite -- Work doesn't work -- Importing the third world -- Harvest of shame -- The daunting workplace -- Sins of the fathers -- Kinship -- Body and mind -- Dreams -- Work works -- Skill and will
N2  - An intimate portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse and charges the government with failing to provide adequate housing, health care, and education. 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 nation's 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 well--their 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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