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How may I help you? : an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage, Deepak Singh
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- Summary
- "How May I Help You? is Deepak Singh's insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn't care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BBC. Like many immigrants before him, Singh discovers that in America employers only trust him with a minimum wage job as a clerk, but his disappointment and embarrassment soon give way to shock when he realizes that in this world of low-wage work he is joined not merely by other immigrants, but by many Americans, a whole swath of the citizenry who goes unacknowledged and unassisted in their struggles to make a living wage. In sincere and straightforward prose, Singh takes the reader along on his journey full of dismay and compassion when the expectations he had of the United States, built around interactions in India with well-educated, affluent expatriates, collide with the reality of a coworker who must skip lunch until payday and the customers who buy in anticipation of a paycheck."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 263 pages
- Contents
-
- Answering machine
- Lucknow
- Transit
- My American wife
- Job application
- Hired
- First day
- Month's notice
- English
- Colleagues
- Olive skin
- Camera king
- Don't buy it
- Foreigner
- My name is Deepak
- I'm straight today
- Holly and I
- All hands on deck
- Long two years
- The golden quarter
- TWO Americas
- Paula
- Cameron
- Don't sue me
- Post Christmas blues
- A handful of dimes
- India visit
- Isbn
- 9780520293311
- Label
- How may I help you? : an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage
- Title
- How may I help you?
- Title remainder
- an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage
- Statement of responsibility
- Deepak Singh
- Title variation
- How may I help you?
- Title variation remainder
- an immigrants journey from MBA to minimum wage
- Subject
-
- Economic history
- Foreign workers
- Foreign workers -- United States
- trueImmigrant workers
- trueImmigrant workers -- United States
- trueImmigrants
- Immigrants -- Economic conditions
- Immigrants -- Economic conditions
- Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions
- trueMarriage
- truePoverty
- Poverty -- United States
- truePrejudice
- trueService industry and trade workers
- Singh, Deepak, 1973-
- United States
- trueUnited States
- trueUnited States -- Economic conditions
- Working poor
- Working poor -- United States
- trueWorking poor people
- trueMinimum wage
- Autobiographies
- trueEast Indian Americans
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "How May I Help You? is Deepak Singh's insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn't care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BBC. Like many immigrants before him, Singh discovers that in America employers only trust him with a minimum wage job as a clerk, but his disappointment and embarrassment soon give way to shock when he realizes that in this world of low-wage work he is joined not merely by other immigrants, but by many Americans, a whole swath of the citizenry who goes unacknowledged and unassisted in their struggles to make a living wage. In sincere and straightforward prose, Singh takes the reader along on his journey full of dismay and compassion when the expectations he had of the United States, built around interactions in India with well-educated, affluent expatriates, collide with the reality of a coworker who must skip lunch until payday and the customers who buy in anticipation of a paycheck."--Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10552539
- Cataloging source
- CUS/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Singh, Deepak
- Dewey number
- 331.6/2092
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HD8081.A5
- LC item number
- S55 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Singh, Deepak
- Foreign workers
- Working poor
- Immigrants
- Economic history
- Foreign workers
- Immigrants
- Working poor
- United States
- United States
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage
- Label
- How may I help you? : an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage, Deepak Singh
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- Contents
- Answering machine -- Lucknow -- Transit -- My American wife -- Job application -- Hired -- First day -- Month's notice -- English -- Colleagues -- Olive skin -- Camera king -- Don't buy it -- Foreigner -- My name is Deepak -- I'm straight today -- Holly and I -- All hands on deck -- Long two years -- The golden quarter -- TWO Americas -- Paula -- Cameron -- Don't sue me -- Post Christmas blues -- A handful of dimes -- India visit
- Control code
- 1728326
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520293311
- Lccn
- 2016030114
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780520293311
- (OCoLC)952632006
- Label
- How may I help you? : an immigrant's journey from MBA to minimum wage, Deepak Singh
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Answering machine -- Lucknow -- Transit -- My American wife -- Job application -- Hired -- First day -- Month's notice -- English -- Colleagues -- Olive skin -- Camera king -- Don't buy it -- Foreigner -- My name is Deepak -- I'm straight today -- Holly and I -- All hands on deck -- Long two years -- The golden quarter -- TWO Americas -- Paula -- Cameron -- Don't sue me -- Post Christmas blues -- A handful of dimes -- India visit
- Control code
- 1728326
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 263 pages
- Isbn
- 9780520293311
- Lccn
- 2016030114
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780520293311
- (OCoLC)952632006
Subject
- Economic history
- Foreign workers
- Foreign workers -- United States
- trueImmigrant workers
- trueImmigrant workers -- United States
- trueImmigrants
- Immigrants -- Economic conditions
- Immigrants -- Economic conditions
- Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions
- trueMarriage
- truePoverty
- Poverty -- United States
- truePrejudice
- trueService industry and trade workers
- Singh, Deepak, 1973-
- United States
- trueUnited States
- trueUnited States -- Economic conditions
- Working poor
- Working poor -- United States
- trueWorking poor people
- trueMinimum wage
- Autobiographies
- trueEast Indian Americans
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