Includes bibliographical references and index.

"First papercover edition 2007."

Identity as a weapon in the moral politics of work and poverty -- In exile on main street -- Lives on the line: low-wage work in the teleservice economy -- Deconstructing labor demand in today's advanced economies: implications for low-wage employment -- Understanding the unemployment experience of low-wage workers: implications for ethnographic research -- Looking for stories of inner-city politics: from the personal to the global -- Taking care of business: the economic survival strategies of low-income, noncustodial fathers -- Custodial mothers, welfare reform, and the new homeless: a case study of homeless families in three Lowell shelters -- Informal support networks and the maintenance of low-wage jobs -- The low-wage labor market and welfare reform -- Care at work -- Who counts? The case for participatory research -- Quiescence: the Scylla and Charybdis of empowerment -- Taking dialogue seriously -- Democratizing poverty.

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