The Price of Poverty - 9780520238893
Un libro in lingua di Daniel Dohan edito da Univ of California Pr, 2003
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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?
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Price of Poverty
- Sottotitolo: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Daniel Dohan
- Editore: Univ of California Pr
- Collana: Univ of California Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Dicembre '03
- Genere: BUSINESS and ECONOMICS
- Argomenti : Mexican Americans California San Jose Economic conditions Mexican Americans California East Los Angeles Economic conditions Poor California San Jose
- Pagine: 304
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0520238893
- EAN-13: 9780520238893