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- The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio
- Book
- 2003
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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?
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-5
- List of Figures and Tables
- pp. vii-viii
- Notes and Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xx
- Part I: Introduction
- 1. Institutions of Poverty
- pp. 3-16
- 2. Income Generation in the Barrios
- pp. 17-32
- Part II: Work
- pp. 33-36
- 3. The Job Market
- pp. 37-50
- 4. The Experience of Low-Wage Work
- pp. 51-69
- 5. Networks and Work
- pp. 70-98
- Part III: Crime
- pp. 99-102
- 6. Illegal Routines
- pp. 103-129
- 7. The Consequences of Illegal Work
- pp. 130-154
- Part IV: Welfare
- pp. 155-158
- 8. Making Ends Meet
- pp. 159-190
- 9. Making Welfare Stigma
- pp. 191-208
- Part V: Conclusion: Work, Crime, and Welfare
- pp. 209-214
- 10. The Price of Poverty
- pp. 215-228
- Appendix: Methods of This Study
- pp. 229-248
- Bibliography
- pp. 275-288
- Production Notes
- p. 317
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520937277
Related ISBN(s)
9780520238893
MARC Record
OCLC
55748357
Pages
314
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No