Women in the American welfare trap /

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In the United States, a majority of the poor and those who work with the poor are women. Recipients of public assistance and the welfare workers who serve them are both trapped at the bottom of the American welfare system. How do they perceive their place in society? How do they assess their self-wo...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1996.
Sujets:
Poor women > United States.
Welfare recipients > United States.
Human services personnel > United States.
Public welfare > United States.
Aid to families with dependent children programs > United States.
Welfare rights movement > United States.
Femmes pauvres > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > Bénéficiaires > États-Unis.
Services sociaux > Personnel > États-Unis.
Aide sociale > États-Unis.
Aide sociale aux familles avec enfants à charge > États-Unis.
Défense des droits économiques et sociaux > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Aid to families with dependent children programs.
Human services personnel.
Poor women.
Public welfare.
Welfare recipients.
Welfare rights movement.
Sozialhilfeempfängerin
Sozialarbeiterin
Vrouwen.
Armoede.
Sociale politiek.
United States.
Michigan
Aid to families with dependent children programs > United States
Human services personnel > United States
Poor women > United States
Public welfare > United States
Welfare recipients > United States
Welfare rights movement > United States
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Producing the World in Everyday Talk
  • 2. The Welfare Trap I: Recipients
  • 3. A Tenuous Advocacy
  • 4. "Us"
  • 5. "Them"
  • 6. The Welfare Trap II: Workers
  • 7. Good and (Mostly) Bad Clients
  • 8. Further Productions: Attitudes and Policy
  • 9. Trapped as They Are
  • 10. Conclusions.

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