No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City

Katherine S. Newman, Ford Foundation Professor
of Urban Studies at Harvard, focuses much of
her research on America's urban poor. In No
Shame in My Game, Newman describes the results
of her two year research project in Harlem,
a project in which Newman and others studied
the lives of many of Harlem's working poor.
Many findings were surprising and contrary to
popular depictions of the poor. Most poor
people, Newman found, want to work and
spend numerous hours in fruitless searches
for work. The book uses exerpts from subjects'
own diaries and details the day-to-day lives
of the subjects to create a powerful story
of the working poor in America. Recommended.