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The working poor : invisible in America / David K. Shipler.
Lippincott Library HC110.P6 S48 2005
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LIBRA HC110.P6 S48 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipler, David K., 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor--United States.
- Poor.
- Working class.
- Finance, Personal.
- Economic conditions.
- United States.
- Working class--United States--Economic conditions.
- Working class--United States--Finance, Personal.
- Cost and standard of living--United States.
- Cost and standard of living.
- Wages--United States.
- Wages.
- Income--United States.
- Income.
- Debt--United States.
- Debt.
- Employment.
- Poverty.
- Salaries and Fringe Benefits.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Working class--Economic conditions.
- Working class--Finance, Personal.
- Medical Subjects:
- Employment.
- Poverty.
- Salaries and Fringe Benefits.
- Income.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 329 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage books edition.
- Other Title:
- Invisible in America
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- "David Shipler ... journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweatshop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor ... Braced by hard fact and personal testimony, he unravels the forces that confine people in the quagmire of low wages. And unlike most works on poverty, this book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad. With pointed recommendations for change that challenge Republicans and Democrats alike, The Working Poor stands to make a difference"--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Preface
- 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
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-316) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375708219
- 9780375708213
- OCLC:
- 57507359
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- Publisher description
- Inhaltsverzeichnis The working poor
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