Laboring below the line :  the new ethnography of poverty, low-wage work, and survival in the global economy / 
Frank Munger, editor. 
 - New York :  Russell Sage Foundation,  c2007. 
 - xi, 319 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "First papercover edition 2007." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0871546191 (pbk.) 9780871546197 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Working poor--United States.<br/>Wages--United States.<br/>Working poor--Government policy--United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD8072.5  / .L33 2007