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"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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• Full title: No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
• Author: Katherine S. Newman, Russell Sage Foundation
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780375703799
• ISBN: 0375703799
• ID: 11406410
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 299 g
• Dimensions: 207 × 131 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: April 2000

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