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The price of poverty : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dohan, Daniel, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.