num_pages: 416
description: "Powerful and poignant.... Newman's message is clear and timely." -- The Philadelphia InquirerIn No Shame in My Game , Harvard anthropologist Katherine Newman gives voice to a population for whom work, family, and self-esteem are top priorities despite all the factors that make earning a living next to impossible--minimum wage, lack of child care and health care, and a desperate shortage of even low-paying jobs. By intimately following the lives of nearly 300 inner-city workers and job seekers for two yearsin Harlem, Newman explores a side of poverty often ignored by media and politicians--the working poor.The working poor find dignity in earning a paycheck and shunning the welfare system, arguing that even low-paying jobs give order to their lives. No Shame in My Game gives voice to a misrepresented segment of today's society, and is sure to spark dialogue over the issues surrounding poverty, working and welfare.
language: English
title: No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
titlecomplete: No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Economics, Poverty, Race, Class, Urban Studies, Sociology, Social Issues, Anthropology
ratings_count: 459
publisher: Vintage