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No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City

No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City

Newman, Katherine S.

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AnthropologyGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0375703799
ISBN13: 9780375703799
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Apr 25 2000
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.16 Depth: 8.16
Language: English
Awards: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam)
Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely. --The Philadelphia Inquirer

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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