Both Hands Tied - Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

Informationen zum Autor Jane L. Collins is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the author of Threads: Gender! Labor! and Power in the Global Apparel Industry! among other titles. Victoria Mayer is assistant professor of sociology at Colby College. Klappentext Studies the working poor in the United States! focusing on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine! Wisconsin! this title tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying jobs. Zusammenfassung Studies the working poor in the United States! focusing on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine! Wisconsin! this title tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying jobs.

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• Authors: Jane L. Collins, Jane L. Mayer Collins, Jane L./ Mayer Collins, Jane Lou Collins, COLLINS JANE L MAYER VICTORIA, Collins Jane L., Jane Collins, Victoria Mayer, Victoria Collins Mayer, Mayer Victoria
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2010
• EAN: 9780226114064
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11406-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Poverty & unemployment, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Poverty and precarity, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare and benefit systems