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 /

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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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Main Authors: Marchevsky, Alejandra (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Theoharis, Jeanne (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2006]
Subjects:
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
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
1996
Chronicles
devastating
effects
ended
know
legislation
reform
that
welfare

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