The price of poverty : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / / Daniel Dohan
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| Autore: | Dohan Daniel <1965-> |
| Titolo: | The price of poverty : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / / Daniel Dohan |
| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| 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 | |
| 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? |
| ISBN: | 9786612359736 |
| 9781282359734 | |
| 1282359738 | |
| 9780520937277 | |
| 0520937279 | |
| 9781597348317 | |
| 1597348317 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911135242503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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