Not Working : Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Marchevsky, Alejandra
Other Authors: Theoharis, Jeanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Subjects:
United States. > Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (United States)
Immigrants > California > Long Beach > Economic conditions.
Immigrants > California > Long Beach > Social conditions.
Mexican American women > California > Long Beach > Economic conditions.
Mexican American women > California > Long Beach > Social conditions.
Public welfare > Political aspects > United States.
Welfare recipients > Employment > United States.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Long Beach > Conditions économiques.
Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Californie > Long Beach > Conditions sociales.
Aide sociale > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Immigrants > Economic conditions
Immigrants > Social conditions
Mexican American women > Economic conditions
Mexican American women > Social conditions
Public welfare > Political aspects
Welfare recipients > Employment
California > Long Beach
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Latinas on the Fault Lines of Citizenship; Part I. Neither a Hand Up nor a Handout; 1 Ending Welfare: New Nativism andthe Triumph of Post-Civil Rights Politics; 2 Poverty in the Suburbs:Race and Redevelopment Policy in Long Beach; Part II. Any Job at Any Wage; 3 Tough Love in L.A. County:The Failure of Welfare-to-Work; 4 The Myth of Welfare Dependency:Caught between Welfare and Work; 5 "It's Not What You Choose, but Where TheySend You": Inside Personal Responsibility; Conclusion: The Emperor's New Welfare: Reassessing the "Success" of Welfare Reform.
  • NotesIndex; About the Authors.

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