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Flat Broke with Children : Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

ISBN: 9780195176018 | 0195176014
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/14/2004

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
Hailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this "success" look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their families, and the rules and regulations of welfare refo... MORE
Acknowledgmentsix
Chapter 1 Money and Morality3(30)
Chapter 2 Enforcing the Work Ethic33(30)
Chapter 3 Promoting Family Values63(32)
Chapter 4 Fear, Hope, and Resignation in the Welfare Office... MORE95(26)
Chapter 5 Pyramids of Inequality121(18)
Chapter 6 Invisibility and Inclusion139(40)
Chapter 7 Cultures of Poverty179(36)
Chapter 8 The "Success" of Welfare Reform215(26)
Notes241(22)
References263(18)
Index281

Sharon Hays is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Virginia. The author of The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, she has been interviewed for publications such as The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Parenting, Working Mother Magazine, and U.S. News and World Report.


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