"The Working Poor"
As class issues become more important to the work of pastoral theologians, there's an entirely new stream of literature that asks our attention.The latest behemoth of a text to emerge on class and American culture tells the stories of largely unseen Americans who work and still "suffer the barbed indignities of poverty."
Here's the New York Times review of The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler.
"There are 35 million people in the country living in poverty," writes reviewer Ron Suskind (known himself for his work on race, class and equality in American education). "Most of the adults in that group work nowadays; many of them work full time. And while there are heavy concentrations of African-Americans and white single women in the mix, the group is every bit as diverse, and diffuse, as the nation is."
Suskind says the text is "clearly one of those seminal books that every American should read and read now."
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Tuesday, March 02, 2004
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