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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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Re: No Shame In My Game
But it's really a bit annoying that many riddles have not changed in
essence since the first part. We, for example, continue to make all sorts
of goats-bugs to sing, conduct them and play the local analogue
"Guess the melody" (more precisely, we must not guess, but remember
and repeat). By the way, there are a lot of repetitions - more than once
and not twice our gnome will pull at the antennae of beetles, run
around and put their pipe to different creatures and even inanimate
objects to evoke their spirit and get some information.
(Anna May 10:52am May 20, 2018)
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