Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad
Subtitle: Poverty, Myth, and Low-Wage Labor in Oklahoma
Contributors: Robert McCormick (Foreword)
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780806132556
Subjects: Sociology; Wages; Poor; Oklahoma - Local History; Poverty; Business & Economics; History; United States - State & Local - General; History: American; Sociology - General; Economic Conditions; Oklahoma
Description: "In Oklahoma, eighth-poorest state in the nation, poverty is a pressing social problem. Even so, Robert Lee Maril's Waltzing with the Ghost of Tom Joad is the first comprehensive analysis of poverty in the state.".

"Combining ethnography with statistical analysis, Maril portrays the lives of poverty-stricken Oklahomans, many of them children, minorities, and the elderly. Exploring myths about the poor and discussing the facts behind these myths, Maril discusses the real causes of poverty in the state, especially low-wage labor. He concludes by presenting a public-policy agenda that would benefit the poor directly and, in so doing, improve the lives of all Oklahomans."--BOOK JACKET.