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Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom of the Low-wage Labor Market Book
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Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular 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, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedulesâ??and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid.
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Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer here examine the situations of these women in light of the 1996 national Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and other like-minded reformsâ??laws that ended the entitlement to welfare for those in need and provided an incentive for them to return to work. Arguing that this reform came at a time of gendered change in the labor force and profound shifts in the responsibilities of family, firms, and the state, Both Hands Tied provides a stark but poignant portrait of how welfare reform afflicted poor, single-parent families, ultimately eroding the participantsâ?? economic rights and affecting their ability to care for themselves and their children.
- 0226114066
- 9780226114064
- JL Collins
- 23 April 2010
- Chicago University Press
- Paperback (Book)
- 264
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