![]() ![]() ![]() And unlike most works on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well - their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers."-BOOK JACKET. "We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital - each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crises. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy.". ![]() Shipler exposes the interlocking, problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor - white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweatshop seamstresses, illegal immigrants in menial jobs and Americans saddled with immense student loans and paltry wages. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. English Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-316) and index 'David Shipler. Shipler makes clear in this study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology - hard, honest work. Broken link? let us search Trove, the Wayback Machine, or Google for you. ![]()
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