No Shame in My Game
The Working Poor in the Inner City
$39.99
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2000
Summary
Powerful and poignant…. Newman’s message is clear and timely. –The Philadelphia Inquirer
In No Shame in My Game, Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible–minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs.
By intimately following the lives of nearly 300 inner-city work…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375703799 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0375703799 |
| Author: | Katherine S. Newman |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 311g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 131mm x 202mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
”[Newman] balances the personal experience of her subjects with thorough reasearch, analysis, and ideas for policy reform but the stories of the people working for minimum wage are what stay with you.” –The New Yorker
“Extremely valuable…extremely engaging.”–The Denver Post
Katherine S. Newman
Katherine Newman is a professor at Harvard University.
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