The Resource The working poor : invisible in America, David K. Shipler
The working poor : invisible in America, David K. Shipler
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The item The working poor : invisible in America, David K. Shipler represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
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- Summary
- The author looks 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. They are known as the working poor. He unravels the forces that confine people to low wages. This book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375408908
- Label
- The working poor : invisible in America
- Title
- The working poor
- Title remainder
- invisible in America
- Statement of responsibility
- David K. Shipler
- Subject
-
- Working class -- United States -- Finance, Personal
- Working class -- United States -- Finance, Personal
- Cost and standard of living -- United States
- Poor -- United States
- trueDebt -- United States
- truePersonal finance -- United States
- trueSociety and culture -- Wealth and class | Poverty
- Cost and standard of living -- United States
- Income -- United States
- Debt -- United States
- Poor -- United States
- Wages -- United States
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Income -- United States
- trueBusiness and economics -- Economics | Socioeconomics
- truePoor people -- United States
- trueIncome
- trueCost and standard of living
- Debt -- United States
- trueWages -- United States
- trueWorking class -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Wages -- United States
- Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- The author looks 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. They are known as the working poor. He unravels the forces that confine people to low wages. This book also offers compelling portraits of employers struggling against razor-thin profits and competition from abroad
- Summary
- A 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
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2004
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 158834
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 305.5/690973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC110.P6
- LC item number
- S48 2005
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- invisible in America
- Label
- The working poor : invisible in America, David K. Shipler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21330587
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375408908
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2003056191
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)52455386
- (Sirsi) i9780375408908
- Label
- The working poor : invisible in America, David K. Shipler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 21330587
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Extent
- xii, 319 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375408908
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2003056191
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)52455386
- (Sirsi) i9780375408908
Subject
- trueAdult books for young adults
- trueBusiness and economics -- Economics | Socioeconomics
- trueCost and standard of living
- Cost and standard of living -- United States
- Cost and standard of living -- United States
- trueDebt -- United States
- Debt -- United States
- Debt -- United States
- trueIncome
- Income -- United States
- Income -- United States
- truePersonal finance -- United States
- Poor -- United States
- Poor -- United States
- truePoor people -- United States
- trueSociety and culture -- Wealth and class | Poverty
- trueWages -- United States
- Wages -- United States
- Wages -- United States
- Working class -- United States -- Economic conditions
- trueWorking class -- United States -- Economic conditions
- Working class -- United States -- Finance, Personal
- Working class -- United States -- Finance, Personal
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