Not Working : Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform /
Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, "work" means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2006]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I Neither a Hand Up nor a Handout
- 1 Ending Welfare
- 2 Poverty in the Suburbs
- PART II Any Job at Any Wage
- 3 Tough Love in L.A. County
- 4 The Myth of Welfare Dependency
- 5 "It's Not What You Choose, but Where They Send You"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Authors