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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460299703321

Titolo

Invisible in Austin : life and labor in an American city / / edited by Javier Auyero ; with an afterword by Loïc Wacquant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4773-0366-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

976.4/31

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Texas - Austin

Poor - Texas - Austin

Minorities - Texas - Austin

Electronic books.

Austin (Tex.) Social conditions

Austin (Tex.) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Know Them Well (Javier Auyero); 1. Austin, Texas, in Sociohistorical Context (Maggie Tate); 2. Santos: The Gold Hunter (Jacinto Cuvi); 3. Clarissa: "A Woman Who Fell on Hard Times" (Kristine Kilanski); 4. Inés: Discipline, Surveillance, and Mothering in the Margins (Jessica Dunning-Lozano); 5. Chip: The Cost(s) of Chasing the American Dream (Eric Enrique Borja); 6. Raven: "The Difference between a Cocktail Waitress and a Stripper? Two Weeks" (Caitlyn Collins); 7. Kumar: Driving in the Nighttime (Katherine Jensen)

8. Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry (Katherine Sobering)9. Keith: A Musician at the Margins (Amias Maldonado); 10. Xiomara: Working toward Home (Jennifer Scott) ; 11. Ella: Fighting to Save a Few (Pamela Neumann); 12. Manuel: The Luxury of Defending Yourself (Marcos Pérez); Afterword: Plumbing the Social Underbelly of the Dual City (Loïc Wacquant)