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The working poor : towards a state agenda / by Gordon, David M.(CARDINAL)129056; Council of State Planning Agencies.(CARDINAL)134299;
Bibliography: pages 87-90.
Subjects: Community development; Labor supply; Full employment policies;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The working poor : invisible in America / by Shipler, David K.,1942-(CARDINAL)168609;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-316) and index.Introduction: At the edge of poverty -- ch. 1. Money and its opposite -- ch. 2. Work doesn't work -- ch. 3. Importing the third world -- ch. 4. Harvest of shame -- ch. 5. The daunting workplace -- ch. 6. Sins of the fathers -- ch. 7. Kinship -- ch. 8. Body and mind -- ch. 9. Dreams -- ch. 10. Work works -- ch. 11. Skill and will.
Subjects: Cost and standard of living; Debt; Employment (Economic theory); Income.; Income; Poor; Poverty.; Wages; Working class; Working class;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The working poor : invisible in America / by Shipler, David K.,1942-(CARDINAL)168609;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. As David K. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology hard, honest work. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs; the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education; the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital--each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crisis. And unlike most works on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well--their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. It is a book that stands to make a difference.
Subjects: Poor; Working class; Working class; Cost and standard of living; Wages; Income; Debt;
Available copies: 19 / Total copies: 24
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The working poor in North Carolina : getting informed and getting involved / by Finger, William R.(CARDINAL)159174; North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.(CARDINAL)164866;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-15).
Subjects: Poor;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The working poor; towards a state agenda / by Gordon, David M.(CARDINAL)129056;
Bibliography: pages 87-90.
Subjects: Working class; Labor movement; Labor; Job satisfaction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Faith-based organizing : a congregational planning resource for addressing poverty /
Includes bibliographical references.Faith-Based Organizing: A Congregational Planning Resource for Addressing Poverty was prepared specifically for pastors and lay leaders who want to invite their whole congregations to engage in faith-based community organizing to address poverty and its root causes. This practical resource will help them grow in their understanding and motivate them into action. It will also be useful for denominational and judicatory leaders who feel called to lead the church in mission. The authors share the fruits of what they discovered--through both their successes and errors--about community life inside and outside the church. They make a strong case that people of faith can address and overcome poverty, because they have what is needed to do so. They identify the available resources in the local church and offer tools for building relationships with leaders in a local community where there are people in poverty. They invite congregations to initiate local partnerships that include a congregation, people in poverty, and community leaders to advocate for change that can overcome poverty. This book presents a faith-based effort seeking to identify what sustains poverty and to organize people to work together to overcome its root causes. The result is collaborative relationships that change systems contributing to poverty. Within this process, new leadership will emerge, relationships will be enriched, and congregations will experience renewed love for people by undergoing transformation. This book presents a faith-based effort seeking to identify what sustains poverty and to organize people to work together to overcome its root causes. The result is collaborative relationships that change systems contributing to poverty. Within this process, new leadership will emerge, relationships will be enriched, and congregations will experience renewed love for people by undergoing transformation.
Subjects: Church work with the poor.;
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Holding it together : how women became America's safety net / by Calarco, Jessica,1983-author.(CARDINAL)896092;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-303) and index."Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women-women who are tasked with holding society together at the seams and fixing it when things fall apart. In this tour de force, acclaimed Sociologist Jessica Calarco lays bare the devastating consequences of our status quo. Holding It Together draws on five years of research in which Calarco surveyed over 4000 parents and conducted more than 400 hours of interviews with women who bear the brunt of our broken system. A widowed single mother struggles to patch together meager public benefits while working three jobs; an aunt is pushed into caring for her niece and nephew at age fifteen once their family is shattered by the opioid epidemic; a daughter becomes the backstop caregiver for her mother, her husband, and her child because of the perceived flexibility of her job; a well-to-do couple grapples with the moral dilemma of leaning on overworked, underpaid childcare providers to achieve their egalitarian ideals. Stories of grief and guilt abound. Yet, they are more than individual tragedies. Tracing present-day policies back to their roots, Calarco reveals a systematic agreement to dismantle our country's social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt. She leads us to see women's labor as the reason we've gone so long without the support systems that our peer nations take for granted, and how women's work maintains the illusion that we don't need a net. Weaving eye-opening original research with revelatory sociological narrative, Holding It Together is a bold call to demand the institutional change that each of us deserves, and a warning about the perils of living without it."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Working class women.; Working poor.; Poor women.; Work and family.; Labor policy.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Getting me cheap : how low-wage work traps women and girls in poverty / by Freeman, Amanda(Professor),author.(CARDINAL)862481; Dodson, Lisa,author.(CARDINAL)649675;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Girls step up -- Shifts to work any and all the time -- Care work for cheap -- The centrality of motherhood -- The broken promise of childcare -- Moms and kids on a cliff -- Keeping us in our place -- Calling us up."Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, order groceries online, and hire nannies to care for kids. Getting Me Cheap is a riveting portrait of the lives of the low-wage workers-primarily women-who make this lifestyle possible. Sociologists Lisa Dodson and Amanda Freeman follow women in the food, health care, home care, and other low-wage industries as they struggle to balance mothering with bad jobs and without public aid. While these women tend to the needs of well-off families, their own children frequently step into premature adult roles, providing care for siblings and aging family members. Based on years of in-depth field work and hundreds of eye-opening interviews, Getting Me Cheap explores how America traps millions of women and their children into lives of stunted opportunity and poverty in service of giving others of us the lives we seek. Destined to rank with works like Evicted and Nickle and Dimed for its revelatory glimpse into how our society functions behind the scenes, Getting Me Cheap also offers a way forward-with both policy solutions and a keen moral vision for organizing women across class lines."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Poor women; Working poor;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 11
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A study of the working poor in North Carolina / by North Carolina.Labor Market Information Division.(CARDINAL)166504;
Includes bibliographical references."To better understand the needs of working families and the barriers to meeting those needs, the North Carolina General Assembly mandated a study of the working poor as a part of the 1997 welfare reform initiatives"--p. i.
Subjects: Working poor; Working poor;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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"We are all fast-food workers now" : the global uprising against poverty wages / by Orleck, Annelise,author.(CARDINAL)386238;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. We Are All Fast Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages traces the evolution of a new global labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from Manila to Manhattan, from Baja California to Bangladesh, from Capetown to Cambodia. This is an up close and personal look at globalization and its costs, as seen through the eyes and told whenever possible through the words of low-wage workers themselves: the berry pickers and small farmers, fast food servers, retail cashiers, garment workers, hotel housekeepers, home health care aides, airport workers and adjunct professors who are fighting for respect, safety and a living wage. The result of 140 interviews by award-winning historian Annelise Orleck, and with original photographs by Liz Cooke, this is a powerful look at neo-liberalism and its damages, a story of resistance and rebellion, a reflection on hope and change as it rises from the bottom up"--
Subjects: Interviews.; Working poor; Living wage movement.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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