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This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal,or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. Todo so they have juggled child-care schedules, left abusive partners,and kicked drug habits to participate in a unique intensive retrainingprogram. Through the voices of the women participants and theirinstructors, Margaret Little analyzes the program to reveal thestruggles and triumphs of low-income women. She demonstrates that thereis a desperate need for retraining programs that provide realopportunities for economic independence. She also argues that, in anera of workfare and time-limited welfare, such programs are aneffective strategy for welfare reform.

If I Had a Hammer: Retraining That Really Works

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This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal,or both, who have defied the odds to become... Read more

    Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
    Publication Date: 15/03/2005
    ISBN13: 9780774811187, 978-0774811187
    ISBN10: 0774811188

    Number of Pages: 192

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    This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal,or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. Todo so they have juggled child-care schedules, left abusive partners,and kicked drug habits to participate in a unique intensive retrainingprogram. Through the voices of the women participants and theirinstructors, Margaret Little analyzes the program to reveal thestruggles and triumphs of low-income women. She demonstrates that thereis a desperate need for retraining programs that provide realopportunities for economic independence. She also argues that, in anera of workfare and time-limited welfare, such programs are aneffective strategy for welfare reform.

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