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Invisible in Austin : Life and Labor in an American City.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (281 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781477303665
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invisible in AustinDDC classification:
  • 976.4/31
LOC classification:
  • F394
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Know Them Well (Javier Auyero) -- 1. Austin, Texas, in Sociohistorical Context (Maggie Tate) -- 2. Santos: The Gold Hunter (Jacinto Cuvi) -- 3. Clarissa: "A Woman Who Fell on Hard Times" (Kristine Kilanski) -- 4. Inés: Discipline, Surveillance, and Mothering in the Margins (Jessica Dunning-Lozano) -- 5. Chip: The Cost(s) of Chasing the American Dream (Eric Enrique Borja) -- 6. Raven: "The Difference between a Cocktail Waitress and a Stripper? Two Weeks" (Caitlyn Collins) -- 7. Kumar: Driving in the Nighttime (Katherine Jensen) -- 8. Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry (Katherine Sobering) -- 9. Keith: A Musician at the Margins (Amias Maldonado) -- 10. Xiomara: Working toward Home (Jennifer Scott) -- 11. Ella: Fighting to Save a Few (Pamela Neumann) -- 12. Manuel: The Luxury of Defending Yourself (Marcos Pérez) -- Afterword: Plumbing the Social Underbelly of the Dual City (Loïc Wacquant).
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Know Them Well (Javier Auyero) -- 1. Austin, Texas, in Sociohistorical Context (Maggie Tate) -- 2. Santos: The Gold Hunter (Jacinto Cuvi) -- 3. Clarissa: "A Woman Who Fell on Hard Times" (Kristine Kilanski) -- 4. Inés: Discipline, Surveillance, and Mothering in the Margins (Jessica Dunning-Lozano) -- 5. Chip: The Cost(s) of Chasing the American Dream (Eric Enrique Borja) -- 6. Raven: "The Difference between a Cocktail Waitress and a Stripper? Two Weeks" (Caitlyn Collins) -- 7. Kumar: Driving in the Nighttime (Katherine Jensen) -- 8. Ethan: A Product of the Service Industry (Katherine Sobering) -- 9. Keith: A Musician at the Margins (Amias Maldonado) -- 10. Xiomara: Working toward Home (Jennifer Scott) -- 11. Ella: Fighting to Save a Few (Pamela Neumann) -- 12. Manuel: The Luxury of Defending Yourself (Marcos Pérez) -- Afterword: Plumbing the Social Underbelly of the Dual City (Loïc Wacquant).

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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