No Shame in My Game by Katherine S Newman

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S Newman

In 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 years in Harlem, Newman explores a side of poverty often ignored by media and politicians -- the working poor.

These workers persevere in a country that, more than any other, measures self-worth through employment but deems hamburger flipping jobs unworthy. 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 shows us a misrepresented segment of today's society, and is sure to spark dialogue over the issues surrounding poverty, working, and welfare.

Katherine S. Newman is professor of sociology and James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. A widely published expert on poverty and the working poor, she was previously the Malcolm Stevenson Forbes '41 Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the department of sociology at Princeton University. She is the author of several books on urban poverty, including No Shame in My Game, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Prize and the Sidney Hillman Book Award in 2000, and A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City (The New Press). She is a co-author, with Victor Tan Chen, of The Missing Class.

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Title	No Shame in My Game
Author	Katherine S Newman
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-04-25
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2000, Winner of Sidney Hillman Prize 2000
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