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Author Shipler, David K., 1942-

Title The working poor : invisible in America / David K. Shipler.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Knopf, c2004.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.569 Sh64w 2004    ---  Available
 FSCC Non-Fiction  305.569 Shi 2004    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 319 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface -- Introduction : at the edge of poverty -- Money and its opposite -- Work doesn't work -- Importing the Third World -- Harvest of shame -- The daunting workplace -- Sins of the fathers -- Kinship -- Body and mind -- Dreams -- Work works -- Skill and will -- Notes -- Index.
Subject Poor.
Working poor.
Working class -- Economic conditions.
Working class -- Finance, Personal.
Cost and standard of living.
Wages.
Income.
Debt.
ISBN 0375408908 (alk. paper)

 
    
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