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• catalog abstract "Publisher's description: An astonishing 35 million Americans work full time but do not make a living. They are nursing home workers, poultry processors, pharmacy assistants, ambulance drivers, child care workers, data entry keyers, janitors. Indeed, one in four American workers lives in or near poverty. Despite the great wealth of the United States, these low-wage workers have lower living standards than do similar workers in most other industrial nations, and over the last twenty years their wages have declined. For several years, Beth Shulman traveled across the country talking to low-wage workers, and in The Betrayal of Work she tells the moving stories of people like Sara, a single mother of three who earns $6.10 an hour, with no sick pay or vacation pay, after working almost a decade at a nursing home in Alabama. For Sara and others like her, writes Shulman, the basic promise of American society--if you work hard, you and your family can make a decent living--has been broken. Americans do seem to be paying renewed attention to low-wage work--as interest in Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed makes clear--attention that is sure to increase as Congress begins debate over the extension of welfare reform next year. The Betrayal of Work moves the conversation forward, providing the fullest portrait of America's working poor, and dispelling a number of myths along the way: that lower unemployment has meant better living conditions for the poor; that making bad jobs into good jobs requires impossibly difficult measures; that low-wage work is ubiquitously low-skill work. With a far-reaching argument about what we must do to restore fairness to the American economic order, The Betrayal of Work is sure to be one of the most talked-about public policy books of the year.".
• catalog contributor b12918039.
• catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions 2001-".
• catalog coverage "United States Economic conditions 2001-2009.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-240) and index.".
• catalog description "Publisher's description: An astonishing 35 million Americans work full time but do not make a living. They are nursing home workers, poultry processors, pharmacy assistants, ambulance drivers, child care workers, data entry keyers, janitors. Indeed, one in four American workers lives in or near poverty. Despite the great wealth of the United States, these low-wage workers have lower living standards than do similar workers in most other industrial nations, and over the last twenty years their wages have declined. For several years, Beth Shulman traveled across the country talking to low-wage workers, and in The Betrayal of Work she tells the moving stories of people like Sara, a single mother of three who earns $6.10 an hour, with no sick pay or vacation pay, after working almost a decade at a nursing home in Alabama. For Sara and others like her, writes Shulman, the basic promise of American society--if you work hard, you and your family can make a decent living--has been broken. Americans do seem to be paying renewed attention to low-wage work--as interest in Barbara Ehrenreich's book Nickel and Dimed makes clear--attention that is sure to increase as Congress begins debate over the extension of welfare reform next year. The Betrayal of Work moves the conversation forward, providing the fullest portrait of America's working poor, and dispelling a number of myths along the way: that lower unemployment has meant better living conditions for the poor; that making bad jobs into good jobs requires impossibly difficult measures; that low-wage work is ubiquitously low-skill work. With a far-reaching argument about what we must do to restore fairness to the American economic order, The Betrayal of Work is sure to be one of the most talked-about public policy books of the year.".
• catalog description "Three workers -- Piling on: why it's about more than money -- In the heart ot our economy and our lives -- The demography of a caste -- How low- wage jobs damage us all -- An apology for indifference -- A question of power -- A compact with working Americans.".
• catalog extent "xi, 255 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "1565847334".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : New Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions 2001-".
• catalog spatial "United States Economic conditions 2001-2009.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "331.2/3 21".
• catalog subject "Families Economic aspects United States.".
• catalog subject "HD4975 .S46 2003".
• catalog subject "Income distribution United States.".
• catalog subject "Wages United States.".
• catalog subject "Working poor United States Case studies.".
• catalog subject "Working poor United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Three workers -- Piling on: why it's about more than money -- In the heart ot our economy and our lives -- The demography of a caste -- How low- wage jobs damage us all -- An apology for indifference -- A question of power -- A compact with working Americans.".
• catalog title "The betrayal of work : how low-wage jobs fail 30 million Americans and their families / Beth Shulman.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".