The Working Poor; Invisible in America

Shipler, David K.

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004

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xii, 319, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads To John Troth--With Best Wishes David K. Shipler. Includes Preface, Introduction--At the Edge of Poverty; Chapter One--Money and Is Opposite; Chapter Two--Work Doesn't Work; Chapter Three--Importing the Third World; Chapter Four--Harvest of Shame; Chapter Five--The Daunting Workplace; Chapter Six--Sins of the Fathers; Chapter Seven--Kinship; Chapter Eight--Body and Mind; Chapter Nine--Dreams; Chapter Ten--Work Works; Chapter Eleven---Skill and Will. Also includes Notes and Index. David K. Shipler (born December 3, 1942) is an American author. He won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-fiction in 1987 for Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land. He also wrote the book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America. Formerly, he was a foreign correspondent of The New York Times. He has taught at many colleges and universities. Since 2010, he has published the electronic journal, The Shipler Report. His book, The Working Poor: Invisible in America, was a national best-seller in 2004 and 2005. It was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award and the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award. It won an Outstanding Book Award from The Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights at Simmons College and led to awards from the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the New York Labor Communications Council, and the Washington, D.C. Employment Justice Center. Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn, hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, "working poor," should be an oxymoron. Nobody who works hard should be poor in America. --from the Introduction. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology, hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor, white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. We meet drifting farm workers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital, each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crisis. And unlike most works on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well, their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.…

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Titolo
The Working Poor; Invisible in America
Autore
Shipler, David K.
Editore
Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2004
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Very good
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Signed
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Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
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0375408908
ISBN 13
9780375408908
Edizione
Seventh Printing [stated].

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