TY - BOOK AU - Hamer,Jennifer ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Abandoned in the heartland: work, family, and living in East St. Louis T2 - The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies AV - HN80.E27 H37 2011 U1 - 305.5/620977389 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Working class KW - Illinois KW - East Saint Louis KW - African Americans KW - East Saint Louis (Ill.) KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century KW - Economic conditions KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; In America's heartland -- East St. Louisans and their wheels -- Work and meaning in a jobless city suburb -- Hustling, clean and dirty -- "Around here, women never get done workin" -- "Gotta protect my own" -- The cost of abandonment; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=730039 ER -