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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?

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Economic history

• Full title: Price of Poverty
• Subtitle: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio
• Author: Daniel Dohan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314
• EAN: 9780520238893
• ISBN: 0520238893
• ID: 04617070
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 438 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2003

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