Working Poor : Invisible in America
ISBN: 9780375708213 | 0375708219
Edition: ReprintFormat: Trade Paper
Publisher: Vintage
Pub. Date: 1/4/2005
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"Nobody who works hard should be poor in America," writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat-shop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. They are known as the working poor. They perform labor essential to America's comfort. They are white and black, Latino and Asian--men and women in small towns and city slums trapped nea... MORE
| Preface | ix | ||
| Introduction At the Edge of Poverty | 3 | (10) | |
| Chapter One Money and Its Opposite | 13 | (26) | |
| Chapter Two Work Doesn't Work | 39 | (38) | |
| Chapter Three Importing the Third World | ... MORE | (19) | |
| Chapter Four Harvest of Shame | 96 | (25) | |
| Chapter Five The Daunting Workplace | 121 | (21) | |
| Chapter Six Sins of the Fathers | 142 | (32) | |
| Chapter Seven Kinship | 174 | (27) | |
| Chapter Eight Body and Mind | 201 | (30) | |
| Chapter Nine Dreams | 231 | (23) | |
| Chapter Ten Work Works | 254 | (31) | |
| Chapter Eleven Skill and Will | 285 | (16) | |
| Epilogue | 301 | (10) | |
| Notes | 311 | (6) | |
| Index | 317 |
David K. Shipler worked for the New York Times from 1966 to 1988, reporting from New York, Saigon, Moscow, and Jerusalem before serving as chief diplomatic correspondent in Washington, D.C. He has also written for The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of three other books—Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams; Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land (which won the Pulitzer Prize); and A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. Mr. Shipler, who has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has taught at Princeton University, at American University in Washington, D.C., and at Dartmouth College. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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