New poverty studies : the ethnography of power, politics, and impoverished people in the United States /
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Table of Contents:
- New dimensions of inequality. Households headed by women : the politics of class, race and gender / Leith mullings (reprint from Conceiving the new world order. The global politics of reproduction / edited by Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1995). Poverty despite family ties / Peter Kwong. What's debt got to do with it / Brett Williams. The tables are turned : immigration, poverty, and social conflict in California communities / Patricia Zavella (reprint from Immigrants out! : the new nativism and the anti-immigrant impulse in the United States / Juan F. Perea, ed., New York : New York University Press, 1997)
- The fallacy of "reform". Welfare reform and the economic and cultural reconstruction of low wage labor markets / Frances Fox Piven (reprint of Piven, Frances Fox. Welfare reform and the economic and cultural reconstruction of low wage labor markets. City and society annual review, 1998). Poor women, fair work, and welfare-to-work that works / Sandra Morgen and Jill Weigt. Coming of age in Oakland / Carol Stack
- Poverty and neoliberal governance. From citizen to volunteer : neoliberal goverance and the erasure of poverty / Susan Brin Hyatt. Microenterprise training programs, neo-liberal common sense, and the discourses of self-esteem / Donna Goldstein. Producing disunity : the constraints and incitements of welfare work / Catherine Kingfisher. Homelessness, employment, and structural violence : exploring constraints on collective mobilizations against systemic inequality / Vincent Lyon-Callo
- Poverty, difference and activism. "I am not a problem without a solution" : poverty and transnational migration / Nina Glick Schiller and Georges Fouron. Let's get our act together : how racial discourses disrupt neighborhood activism / Judith Goode. From plant closing to political movement : challenging the logic of economic destruction in Tennessee / Eve S. Weinbaum
- Theories, politics and policy. Suburbanization and urban poverty under neoliberalism / Matthew Ruben
- Afterword : beyond the privatist consensus / Judith Goode and Jeff Maskovsky