The Working Poor: Invisible in America - Softcover

Shipler, David K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375708219 ISBN 13: 9780375708213

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Shipler David K

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Críticas

"This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." --The New York Times Book Review

" An essential book. . . . It should be required reading not just for every member of Congress, but for every eligible voter." --The Washington Post Book World

"Sensitive, sometimes heart-rending . . . . A vivid portrait of the struggle of the working poor to acquire steady, decently paid employment." -Commentary

"Insightful and moving. . . . Shipler writes with enormous grace [and] he captures the immense frustration endured by the working poor as few others have." --The Nation

"Welcome and important. . . . Shipler manages to see all aspects of poverty--psychological, personal, societal--and examine how they're related. . . . There is much here to ponder for conservatives and liberals alike." --The Seattle Times

Reseña del editor

An intimate portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse and charges the government with failing to provide adequate housing, health care, and education. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375708219
• ISBN 13: 9780375708213
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352