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Autore |
Dohan Daniel <1965-> |
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The price of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / / Daniel Dohan |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
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1-282-35973-8 |
0-520-93727-9 |
1-59734-831-7 |
9786612359736 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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