No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City.
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"It's time to honour and reward people who work hard and play by the rules....No one who works full time and has children should be poor any more."
--Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Putting People First, 1992.
Obviously, to this day, the issue has not been attended to satisfactorily as shown by Katherine Newman's book - No Shame in my Game. The study is about examining the experience of the people living in Harlem -
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It teaches others that although facts and statistics may give you one picture, a field study can yield a totally different one. It shows how qualitative research could give us a deeper understanding of the daily lives and real values of inner city workers. Hopefully, when (if) society reads this book and comes to believe what Newman writes, they will change the way society functions and come to analyze other parts that are overlooked too.
It teaches others that although facts and statistics may give you one picture, a field study can yield a totally different one. It shows how qualitative research could give us a deeper understanding of the daily lives and real values of inner city workers. Hopefully, when (if) society reads this book and comes to believe what Newman writes, they will change the way society functions and come to analyze other parts that are overlooked too.