Potter Addition: Poverty, Family, And Kinship In A Heartland Community

1. First Impressions And Second Thoughts -- 2. The Social Reproduction Of Poverty. Conventional And Critical Problematics. Variable Environments. The Culture Of Poverty And Variable Environments -- 3. Potter Addition. Grand Prairie. The Ecological Setting Of Community. Surplus Populations. The Material Infrastructure Of Community. The Material Culture Of Potter Addition. The Junkyards. Betty's Market. The Question Of Class -- 4. The World Of Work. Disorderly Careers In Potter Addition. The Jack-of-all-trades. Lower-class Work Values -- 5. Labor, Leisure, And Ideology. Leisure Time Farming. The Car Cult. The Subjective Reproduction Of Male Morale -- 6. Saving And Spending. Variable Environments And The Economic Conservatism Of The Poor. Variable Environments And Nigger-rich Life-styles. Mining The Interstices. Alternative Economies --^ 7. The Uxoricentric Family. The Parsonsian Model. The Jural Default Of The Husband. The Husband As Affine. Protracted Intimacies: Mothers And Daughters -- 8. The Antinomies Of Family Life. Generational Compression. The Dialectics Of Uxoricentric Family Life -- 9. The Dialectics Of Lower-class Kinship. The Structure Of The Personal Kindred. Kinship As Ideology. Centripetal And Centrifugal Kinship Systems. Centripetal And Centrifugal Kinship In Clay County. Open And Closed Households In Potter Addition. The Merging Of Households. The Iron Cage Of Reciprocity -- 10. The Moral Foundation Of Lower-class Kinship. The Axiom Of Kinship Amity. Merged And Amalgamated Identities. Affinal Struggles -- 11. The Social Construction Of The Kindred: Sibling-based Descent Groups. Potter Addition's Descent Groups. The Birth Of The Sibling-based Kindred: The Story Of Mary Graham. The Brother As Ex-officio Family Member. Minimalist Kinship --^ 12. Uxoricentric Descent Groups. The Synthetic Nature Of Uxoricentric Kinship. Lower-class Kinship As A Whole -- 13. Potter Addition Today. The Corporate University. Grand Prairie. Clay County And Its Small Towns. Clay County's Farmers. Persistent Poverty. The Changing Face Of Poverty. Continuities In The Culture Of Poverty. The Evolution Of Potter Addition's Culture Of Poverty -- 14. Potter Addition And Its Poverty. Poverty, System, And Social Reproduction. Necessary And Surplus Poverty: Alternative Paths To Poverty. The Denial Of Class. The Question Of Pathology. David L. Harvey. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.