• PART I--INTRODUCTION Preface
• Chapter 1 Institutions of Poverty
• Chapter 2 Income Generation in the Barrios PART II--WORK
• Chapter 3 The Job Market
• Chapter 4 The Experience of Low-Wage Work
• Chapter 5 Networks and Work PART III--CRIME
• Chapter 6 Illegal Routines
• Chapter 7 The Consequences of Illegal Work PART IV--WELFARE
• Chapter 8 Making Ends Meet
• Chapter 9 Making Welfare Stigma PART V--CONCLUSION: WORK, CRIME, AND WELFARE
• Chapter 10 The Price of Poverty Appendix Methods of this Study.
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities--one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens--this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?
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• Community and family
• The cannery culture
• UCAPAWA and California agriculture
• A promise fulfilled : UCAPAWA in Southern California
• Women and UCAPAWA
• Death of a dream.

Women have been the mainstay of the grueling, seasonal canning industry for over a century. This book is their collective biography---a history of their family and work lives, and of their union. Out of the labor militancy of the 1930s emerged the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Quickly it became the seventh largest CIO affiliate and a rare success story of women in unions. Thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American women working in canneries in southern California established effective, democratic trade union locals run by local members. These rank-and-file activists skillfully managed union affairs, including negotiating such benefits as maternity leave, company-provided day care, and paid vacations---in some cases better benefits than they enjoy today. But by 1951, UCAPAWA lay in ruins---a victim of red baiting in the McCarthy era and of brutal takeover tactics by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

A collection of eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Fresno, California.

Not since the early nineteenth century, when California was still part of Mexico, have there been such close ties between Mexico and its former northern territory. Today, one Californian in five is of Mexican heritage, compared with fewer than one in ten in 1970. California is Mexico's second-largest trading partner (after Texas) and Mexico is California's second-largest trading partner (after Japan). This book is the first in any language to explore the nature, scope, and effects of the California-Mexico connection. It analyses the movements of people, goods, money, politics, and culture across the California-Mexico border, and explores its implications for both parties.
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• The fortunes of Pedro
• The merry-go-round
• Money is never a gift
• A truck for the boss
• Murder in the harbor
• Something for nothing
• The beautiful bicycle
• Invention of the Devil
• A night to remember
• The pink angel
• A handful of beans.