How May I Help You?
How May I Help You?
An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
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Sign in or Sign up!- Release Date: 14/02/2017
- Barcode: 9780520293304
- Genre: Non-Fiction
- Sub-Genre: Biography
- Imprint: University of California Press
- Publisher: University of California Press

How May I Help You?
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An Immigrant's Journey from MBA to Minimum Wage
A powerful reminder that service and other low-wage workers are complex and inspiring in their dogged efforts to remain afloat. This book features stories that serve as a chance to humanize debates about work, race, and immigration.
In this moving and insightful work, Deepak Singh chronicles his downward mobility as an immigrant to a small town in Virginia. Armed with an MBA from India, Singh can get only a minimum-wage job in an electronics store. Every day he confronts unfamiliar American mores, from strange idioms to deeply entrenched racism. Telling stories through the unique lens of an initially credulous outsider who is "fresh off the plane," Singh learns about the struggles of his colleagues: Ron, a middle-aged African-American man trying to keep his life intact despite health concerns; Jackie, a young African-American woman diligently attending school after work; and Cindy, whose matter-of-fact attitude helps Deepak adapt to his job and his new life. How May I Help You? is an incisive take on life in the United States and a reminder that the stories of low-wage employees can bring candor and humanity to debates about work, race, and immigration.
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