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

Not Working : : Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform / / Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis.

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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-end jobs...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Marchevsky, Alejandra,
Theoharis, Jeanne,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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