No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City | 
 agrandir | Auteur: Katherine S. Newman
Créateur: Katherine S. Newman
Éditeur: Vintage Books USA
Prix de liste: EUR 11,44
Acheter Neuf: EUR 7,14
Vous épargnez: EUR 4,30 (38%)
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Classement parmi les ventes: 80205
Média: Broche
Pages: 416
Poids (kg): 0.2
Dimension (cm): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0375703799
Code Décimal Dewey: 300
EAN: 9780375703799
ASIN: 0375703799
Date de publication: Avril 2000
Disponibilité: Expedition sous 1 a 2 jours ouvres
Expédition: Livraison internationale disponible
Condition: Livre neuf, expedie par avion de Grande Bretagne, livre en 5 a 8 jours ouvres.
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Harvard anthropologist Katherine S. Newman explodes the myth of America's unmotivated poor in No Shame in My Game, a study of low-wage workers and their job-seeking peers in central Harlem. This is a frontline perspective: in addition to hundreds of interviews, Newman also put her research assistants behind the counters of the fast-food restaurants alongside the study's subjects. The results show that America's largest group of impoverished citizens is not the unemployed, but the working poor. But what will move readers most is the struggling workers themselves, who suffer the indignities, exhaustion, and low compensation of jobs as "burger flippers" because, as one fast-food restaurant employee, Larry, says, "It's my job. You ain't puttin' no food on my table; you ain't puttin' no clothes on my back. I will walk tall with my Burger Barn uniform on." Newman explains how obstacles such as cuts in welfare, lack of health insurance (almost half of employed Americans under the poverty line have no coverage), and substandard education undercut even the most determined efforts of working poor like Larry. Fortunately, she also offers a thick list of old and new potential solutions to this crisis, from Earned Income Tax Credits to new training programs linking private industry to public schools with at-risk youth. An essential, eye-opening read. --Maria Dolan
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