According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack

question 11

Multiple Choice

According to Bourgois in "Poverty at Work: Office Work and the Crack Alternative," his informant,Primo,

• A) never held a job in New York's office environment.
• B) left a job in a service company office primarily because of the low pay it offered.
• C) had to quit his job because of repetitive stress syndrome.
• D) failed at his office job because he could not alter his street identity and mimic professional office culture.

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