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The price of poverty : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / Daniel Dohan.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dohan, Daniel, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--California--San Jose--Economic conditions.
- Mexican Americans.
- Mexican Americans--California--East Los Angeles--Economic conditions.
- Urban poor--California--San Jose.
- Urban poor.
- Urban poor--California--East Los Angeles.
- Hispanic American neighborhoods--California--Case studies.
- Hispanic American neighborhoods.
- San Jose (Calif.)--Economic conditions.
- San Jose (Calif.).
- East Los Angeles (Calif.)--Economic conditions.
- East Los Angeles (Calif.).
- San Jose (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- East Los Angeles (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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?
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612359736
- 9781282359734
- 1282359738
- 9780520937277
- 0520937279
- 9781597348317
- 1597348317
- OCLC:
- 475930283
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