Laboring below the line : the new ethnography of poverty, low-wage work, and survival in the global economy /
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
[2002]
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Table of 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, and 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
- The 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.