It is a book that stands to make a difference. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. 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. 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 makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology-hard, honest work. "This is clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now." - The New York Times Book ReviewĪs David K. What images of the working poor do you hold In what ways did Shipler’s work reverse common stereotypes How were stereotypes reinforced 2. As a society, we often attach certain stereotypes to people according to their socioeconomic class. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Arab and Jew, an intimate portrait unfolds of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K.
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