The Price of Poverty : Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio

Dohan, Daniel

University of California Press（2003/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 314 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520238893
• DDC分類 330.9794

Full Description

Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities--one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens--this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?

Contents

PART I--INTRODUCTION Preface Chapter 1 Institutions of Poverty Chapter 2 Income Generation in the Barrios PART II--WORK Chapter 3 The Job Market Chapter 4 The Experience of Low-Wage Work Chapter 5 Networks and Work PART III--CRIME Chapter 6 Illegal Routines Chapter 7 The Consequences of Illegal Work PART IV--WELFARE Chapter 8 Making Ends Meet Chapter 9 Making Welfare Stigma PART V--CONCLUSION: WORK, CRIME, AND WELFARE Chapter 10 The Price of Poverty Appendix Methods of this Study