Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners Donald R. Shaffer Taft introduces readers to a

Taft introduces readers to a diverse and vibrant transnational community of teenage girl activists in the San Francisco Bay Area

Cherry realizes that "a senior really must be a little more sober and responsible" - perhaps she should have warned the head nurse right away about the rabbit that had been smuggled into the pediatric ward

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The text examines the interconnected roots and symptoms of our current global challenges

Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners Donald R. Shaffer Taft introduces readers to aDuring the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy. LaShawn Harris illuminates the labor patterns and economic activity of three perennials within this kaleidoscope of underground industry: sex work, numbers running for gambling enterprises, and the supernatural consulting business. Mining police and prison records, newspaper accounts,