Stretched Thin - Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform

Klappentext Sandra Morgen is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Oregon. She is author of books including Into Our Own Hands: The Women's Health Movement in the United States! 1969¿1990 and coeditor most recently of Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender! Race! and Militarization. Joan Acker is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Oregon and author of Class Questions: Feminist Answers and Doing Comparable Worth: Gender! Class! and Pay Equity. Jill Weigt is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University¿San Marcos. Zusammenfassung Stretched Thin looks back at a critical moment of policy change and suggests how welfare policy in the United States can be changed to better address the needs of poor families and the nation, question the claim that welfare reform has been a success.

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• Authors: Joan Acker, Sandra Morgen, Sandra Acker Morgen, Sandra L. Morgen, Sandra L. Acker Morgen, Sandra/ Acker Morgen, MORGEN SANDRA ACKER JOAN WEIGT, Jill Weigt
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2009
• EAN: 9780801475108
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7510-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education