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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling again
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Pages: 240
Authors: Gary S. Fields
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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More than three billion people in the world live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. In this book, Gary Fields explains how the poor wo
No Shame in My Game
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Authors: Katherine S. Newman
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-04 - Publisher: Vintage

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"Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." --The Philadelphia Inquirer In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gi
The Working Poor in Europe
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Hans-Jürgen Andreß
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

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The book provides important findings on the link between institutions and in-work poverty. The volume makes a significant contribution to this strand of literat
Work Doesn't Work
Language: en
Pages: 48
Authors: David K. Shipler
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-02 - Publisher: Vintage

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At the bottom of America’s working world, millions live in the shadow of prosperity, in the twilight of poverty and prosperity. Many are trapped for life in a