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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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"The originality of Both Hands Tied lies not just in its rich case study interview materials - in poor women's voices and the trajectories of their work and home lives - but in its careful tying of those materials to shifting national, state, and local economic policies." - Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University"

Both Hands Tied Welfare Reform and the Race to

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    A Paperback / softback by Jane L. Collins, Victoria Mayer

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/05/2010
      ISBN13: 9780226114064, 978-0226114064
      ISBN10: 0226114066
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      Gender studies: women and girls Poverty and precarity Welfare and benefit systems

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "The originality of Both Hands Tied lies not just in its rich case study interview materials - in poor women's voices and the trajectories of their work and home lives - but in its careful tying of those materials to shifting national, state, and local economic policies." - Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University"

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