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No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
Amazon.com Review: Harvard anthropologist Katherine S. Newman explodes the myth of America's unmotivated poor in No Shame in My Game, a study of low-wage workers and their job-seeking peers in central Harlem. This is a frontline perspective: in addition [... more]
$16.00
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Rampage: The Social Roots Of School Shootings
On ballistics and sociological bruises: The first thing one has to do, when trying to take a serious look at the subject of school shootings, is to put things in perspective. After all, despite the shocking and graphic images seen during the media [... more]
$27.50
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Law and Economic Organization: A Comparative Study of ...
Book Description: In this important contribution to the comparative study of legal systems the author examines a sample of some sixty pre-industrial societies from around the world in an attempt to explain why their legal institutions vary. Author: [... more]
$32.99
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Falling from Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of ...
When I was downsized, after 27 yrs..she spoke to my soul: When the diciples asked Jesus why he spoke in parables, Jesus said that it was because they did not perceive from the Spirit. Throughout the ordeal of knowing whether I'd ever get a decent job [... more]
$21.95
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A Different Shade of Gray: Mid-Life and Beyond in the ...
Author: Katherine S. Newman Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 362.510973091732 EAN: 9781565846159 ISBN: 156584615X Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: 2003-01 [... more]
$26.95
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Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings
On ballistics and sociological bruises: The first thing one has to do, when trying to take a serious look at the subject of school shootings, is to put things in perspective. After all, despite the shocking and graphic images seen during the media [... more]
$17.50
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No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City
Amazon.com Review: Harvard anthropologist Katherine S. Newman explodes the myth of America's unmotivated poor in No Shame in My Game, a study of low-wage workers and their job-seeking peers in central Harlem. This is a frontline perspective: in addition [... more]
$27.95
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A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the City
Very helpful in understanding racial disparities among elders: Katherine Newman is a scholar who actually writes readable books, including A Different Shade of Gray, which is a presentation of research she did on racial and class disparities of the aging [... more]
$19.95
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Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market ...
Climbing a Greasy Ladder to Success: Maybe you've read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel-and-Dimed or David K. Shipler's The Working Poor. Or perhaps you've seen the episode of Morgan Spurlock's TV series 30 Days in which he and his girlfriend try to make it [... more]
$35.00
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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
Statistics in the flesh: The top 1% of America's population received 8.83% of national income in 1976 but were getting 21.93% by 2005. On average, a Fortune 500 C.E.O. made 40 times a worker's pay in 1980 but that ratio is 364 to 1 today. That erosion of [... more]
$24.95
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Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market ...
Climbing a Greasy Ladder to Success: Maybe you've read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel-and-Dimed or David K. Shipler's The Working Poor. Or perhaps you've seen the episode of Morgan Spurlock's TV series 30 Days in which he and his girlfriend try to make it [... more]
$19.95
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The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America
Statistics in the flesh: The top 1% of America's population received 8.83% of national income in 1976 but were getting 21.93% by 2005. On average, a Fortune 500 C.E.O. made 40 times a worker's pay in 1980 but that ratio is 364 to 1 today. That erosion of [... more]
$15.00
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