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

• Pubblicazione: Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.4/31
• Soggetto topico: Marginality, Social - Texas - Austin; Poor - Texas - Austin; Minorities - Texas - Austin
• Soggetto geografico: Austin (Tex.) Social conditions; Austin (Tex.) Economic conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): AuyeroJavier; WacquantLoïc
• 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)
• Titolo autorizzato: Invisible in Austin
• ISBN: 1-4773-0366-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460299703321
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