The price of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / / Daniel Dohan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783200903321
• Autore: Dohan Daniel <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
• ISBN: 1-282-35973-8; 0-520-93727-9; 1-59734-831-7; 9786612359736
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Classificazione: MS 3530
• Disciplina: 330.9794/74/00896872
• Soggetti: Mexican Americans - California - San Jose - Economic conditions; Mexican Americans - California - East Los Angeles - Economic conditions; Urban poor - California - San Jose; Urban poor - California - East Los Angeles; Hispanic American neighborhoods - California; San Jose (Calif.) Economic conditions; East Los Angeles (Calif.) Economic conditions; San Jose (Calif.) Ethnic relations; East Los Angeles (Calif.) Ethnic relations
• 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 (p. 275-287) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Institutions of poverty -- Income generation in the barrios -- The job market -- The experience of low-wage work -- Networks and work -- Illegal routines -- The consequences of illegal work -- Making ends meet -- Making welfare stigma -- The price of poverty.
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities-one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens-this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting ; and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?