The price of poverty [electronic resource] : money, work, and culture in the Mexican-American barrio / Daniel Dohan.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.Description: xix, 295 p. : illISBN:- 0520227565 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520238893 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Hispanic American neighborhoods -- California -- Case studies
- Mexican Americans -- California -- East Los Angeles -- Economic conditions
- Mexican Americans -- California -- San Jose -- Economic conditions
- Urban poor -- California -- East Los Angeles
- Urban poor -- California -- San Jose
- East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
- East Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
- San Jose (Calif.) -- Economic conditions
- San Jose (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations
- 330.9794/74/00896872 21
- F869.S394 D64 2003eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.
Institutions of poverty -- Income generation in the barrios -- The job market -- The experience of low-wage work -- Networks and work -- Illegal routines -- The consequences of illegal work -- Making ends meet -- Making welfare stigma -- The price of poverty.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.