Abandoned in the heartland
Subtitle: work, family, and living in East St. Louis
By: Jennifer F. Hamer
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780520269316; 9780520269323
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Working class; African Americans
Notes: "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In America's heartland; title: East St. Louisans and their wheels; title: Work and meaning in a jobless city suburb; title: Hustling, clean and dirty; title: "Around here, women never get done workin"; title: "Gotta protect my own"; title: The cost of abandonment.