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Laboring Below the Line : The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy by Frank Munger (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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As the distribution of wealth between rich and poor in the United States grew more and more unequal over the past twenty years, this economic gap assumed a life of its own in the popular culture. The news and entertainment media increasingly portrayed the lives of the poor with such stereotypes as the lazy welfare mother and the thuggish teen, offering Americans few ways to learn how the "other half" really lives. Laboring Below the Line works to bridge this gap by synthesizing a wide range of qualitative scholarship on the working poor. The result is a coherent, nuanced portrait of how life is lived below the poverty line, and a compelling analysis of the systemic forces in which poverty is embedded, and through which it is perpetuated. Laboring Below the Line explores the role of interpretive research in understanding the causes and effects of poverty. Drawing on perspectives of the working poor, welfare recipients, and marginally employed men and women, the contributors―an interdisciplinary roster of ethnographers, oral historians, qualitative sociologists, and narrative analysts―dissect the life circumstances that affect the personal outlook, ability to work, and expectations f

Who reads Laboring Below the Line : The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy?

Author

Frank Munger (editor)

Publisher

Russell Sage Foundation Publications

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781610444156

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Management