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Carmen Teresa Whalen, From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 336pp. $74.50 cloth; $24.05 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2002

George Lipsitz
George Lipsitz
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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For nearly a century, scholars, politicians, and social service workers in the United States have attributed high levels of poverty among Puerto Ricans, on both the island and the North American mainland, to deficiencies in the behavior, beliefs, and values of the Puerto Rican people. Carmen Teresa Whalen presents an exhaustively researched and carefully argued rebuttal to these “culture of poverty” arguments in From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Farm Workers and Postwar Economies.

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BOOK REVIEWS
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 61 , April 2002 , pp. 196 - 199
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© 2002 The International Labor and Working-Class History Society

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