Waltzing With the Ghost of Tom Joad

by Maril, Robert Lee; McCormick, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780806132556
• ISBN10: 0806132558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

In this groundbreaking work, Robert Lee Maril describes the nature of poverty in contemporary Oklahoma. Based on a four-year comprehensive study, Maril's work focuses on the lives of twelve families from 1995 to 1999. Relying on statistical analysis to sift fact from rumor about the poor and the reasons why they are poor, Maril defines the real cause of poverty: Oklahoma's reliance on low-wage labor.

Author Biography

Robert Lee Maril is Chair and Professor of Sociology University of Texas, Pan American.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Robert McCormick
Preface	xv
Introduction	3	(8)
Twelve Households	11	(43)
Two and a Half Years Later	54	(36)
Poverty in Oklahoma	90	(17)
Social Myth and the Poor	107	(23)
Creating Poverty: Low Wages, the State Economy, and the Working Poor	130	(13)
Poverty and Public Policy	143	(14)
Notes	157	(14)
References	171	(10)
Index	181