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Title Laboring below the line : the new ethnography of poverty, low-wage work, and survival in the global economy / Frank Munger, editor.

Publication Info. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2002]
©2002

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Description xi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Identity as a weapon in the moral politics of work and poverty / Frank Munger -- In exile on main street / Carol Stack -- Lives on the line: low-wage work in the teleservice economy / Ruth Buchanan -- Deconstructing labor demand in today's advanced economies: implications for low-wage employment / Saskia Sassen -- Understanding the unemployment experience of low-wage workers: implications for ethnographic research / Philip Harvey -- Looking for stories of inner-city politics: from the personal to the global / Carl H. Nightingale -- Taking care of business: the economic survival strategies of low-income, noncustodial fathers / Kathryn Edin, Laura Lein, Timothy Nelson -- Custodial mothers, welfare reform, and the new homeless: a case study of homeless families in three Lowell shelters / Aixa N. Cintrón-Vélez -- Informal support networks and the maintenance of low-wage jobs / Julia R. Henly -- Low-wage labor market and welfare reform / Sanders Korenman -- Care at work / Lucie White -- Who counts? The case for participatory research / Frances Ansley -- Quiescence: the Scylla and Charybdis of empowerment / Joel F. Handler -- Taking dialogue seriously / Michael Frisch -- Democratizing poverty / Frank Munger.
Subject Working poor -- United States.
Working poor.
United States.
Wages -- United States.
Wages.
Working poor -- Government policy -- United States.
Working poor -- Government policy.
United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001.
Economic policy.
Chronological Term 1993-2001
Added Author Munger, Frank.
ISBN 0871546175 alkaline paper