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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds 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.
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.
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds 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.
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.
DAVID K. SHIPLER reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of six previous books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, as well as Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught at Princeton, American University, and Dartmouth. He writes online at The Shipler Report.
Introduction
At the Edge of Poverty
Chapter One
Money and Its 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
Epilogue
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780375708213 |
| ISBN-10: | 0375708219 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Shipler, David K. |
| Hersteller: | Knopf |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 203 x 132 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | David K. Shipler |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.01.2005 |
| Gewicht: | 0,393 kg |
DAVID K. SHIPLER reported for The New York Times from 1966 to 1988 in New York, Saigon, Moscow, Jerusalem, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of six previous books, including the best sellers Russia and The Working Poor, as well as Arab and Jew, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and has taught at Princeton, American University, and Dartmouth. He writes online at The Shipler Report.
Introduction
At the Edge of Poverty
Chapter One
Money and Its 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
Epilogue
Notes
Index
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Soziologie |
| Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780375708213 |
| ISBN-10: | 0375708219 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Shipler, David K. |
| Hersteller: | Knopf |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 203 x 132 x 19 mm |
| Von/Mit: | David K. Shipler |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 04.01.2005 |
| Gewicht: | 0,393 kg |
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