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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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Autore: Dohan Daniel <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The price of poverty [[electronic resource] ] : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / / Daniel Dohan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (317 p.)
Disciplina: 330.9794/74/00896872
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: San Jose (Calif.) Economic conditions
East Los Angeles (Calif.) Economic conditions
San Jose (Calif.) Ethnic relations
East Los Angeles (Calif.) Ethnic relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: american citizens
barrios
california
chicano citizens
class differences
contemporary america
cross cultural experiences
ethnographers
ethnographic study
fieldwork
financial concerns
impoverished communities
latino poverty
latinos
los angeles
low wage jobs
mexican american communities
mexican american culture
mexican americans
mexican immigrants
modern history
money and culture
poverty
public assistance
recent immigrants
regional survey
silicon valley
work culture
working class
Classificazione: MS 3530
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?
Titolo autorizzato: The price of poverty  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35973-8
0-520-93727-9
1-59734-831-7
9786612359736
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450289903321
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