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Also by Katherine S. Newman:

The Accordion Family, January 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Taxing The Poor, March 2011
Paperback / e-Book
The Missing Class, September 2007
Hardcover
Chutes and Ladders, November 2006
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Rampage, May 2005
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No Shame In My Game, May 2000
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NO SHAME IN MY GAME
By: Katherine S. Newman

The Working Poor In The Inner City

Vintage
May 2000
On Sale: April 25, 2000
416 pages
ISBN: 0375703799
EAN: 9780375703799
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Non-Fiction

In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs. By intimately following the lives of nearly 300 inner-city workers and job seekers for two yearsin Harlem, Newman explores a side of poverty often ignored by media and politicians--the working poor.

The working poor find dignity in earning a paycheck and shunning the welfare system, arguing that even low-paying jobs give order to their lives. No Shame in My Game gives voice to a misrepresented segment of today's society, and is sure to spark dialogue over the issues surrounding poverty, working and welfare.

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