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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Munger, Frank
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.