The Moral Underground: How Ordinary American Subvert an Unfair Economy (The New Press, 2010)

The book is based on seven years of research at America’s economic fault lines, where middle and lower-income people come together every day at work, in schools, and in the healthcare system. At these class intersections, people talked about the spreading harm of jobs don’t pay a living and the erosion of children and families that don’t get the care they need. The Moral Underground uncovers a new chapter in the long story of resistance, when some people refuse to go along with economic abuse. Hundreds of accounts uncover the everyday dilemmas that ordinary people face in a deeply stratified society and moments of moral disobedience that reminds us of our best American history. The Moral Underground is featured in The American Prospect, January 2010

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Don’t Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America (Beacon Press, 1999)

This book offers a radically new vision of women and girls living below the poverty line; Lisa Dodson makes a frontal assault on conventional attitudes and stereotypes of women in poor America and the seriously misguided "welfare reform" policies of the end of the century.

“A formidable deconstruction of the rhetoric behind the widely believed myth that poor young women and girls enjoy their plight as denizens of the nation's economic underbelly.” – Zachary R. Dowdy, The Boston Globe

“Deeply absorbing...compassionate, and glowing with the dramas of real women’s struggles and lives.”– Barbara Ehrenreich

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