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Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part 1 Ethics at Work 11
1 Employing Parents Who Can't Make a Living 13
2 The Meaning of Work Ethic 27
3 American Bosses: Sympathetic, Amoral Marketeers, and a Few Rule Breakers 57
Part 2 Troubling Children 73
4 Working for the Good of the Child 77
5 "Irresponsible" Parenting or Social Neglect? 93
6 Beyond Blame: Recognizing Unequal Choices 119
Part 3 The Sickening Effects Of Poverty 133
7 A Healer's Dilemma 135
8 Trying to Heal Economic Harms 157
Part 4 Raising A Moral Underground 169
9 Roots of Disobedience 171
10 Raising a Moral Underground 189
Addendum: Research as Democracy 201
Notes 213
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Mathew Kujak
reviewed The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy on February 25, 2012
The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy
Dodson describes an acceptable, even fashionable, bigotry in our culture; that of blaming poor working people for their own troubles. With wages too low to support a family, working parents must scrape together child care arrangements, medical help, and go without basic necessities that our culture assumes that "good" parents will always supply their children. It is not always possible to be a "good" parent when poor. If your work schedule is irregular or inflexible, child emergencies must be neglected. If you are working two jobs to put food on the table, you can't make parent-teacher conferences in the middle of the day. If you have no insurance, that asthma inhaler isn't going to refill itself. When housing is either affordable or safe, but rarely both, your kids have to live with mold, bugs, pollution, and a host of other negative factors.
To make it worse, our political and economic dialogue blame the poor for their predicament. If they "were willing to work hard," they wouldn't be poor (many work two full-time jobs). If they want their kids to succeed at school, they would read to them in the evening (night shifts, and older kids often taking care of younger siblings). If they loved their kids, they would make sure they got nutritious food, adequate exercise, and yearly checkups (all hard to do when you're working for minimum wage and no benefits).
The problem is rooted in an economic philosophy that says that business has no moral obligation to the welfare of its workers or their family. Dodson describes managers, teachers, and health care workers who go above and beyond, usually breaking the rules of their employers, to give their work force a hand making their lives more manageable.
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