Women in the American welfare trap /
In the United States, a majority of the poor and those who work with the poor are women. Recipients of public assistance and the welfare workers who serve them are both trapped at the bottom of the American welfare system. How do they perceive their place in society? How do they assess their self-wo...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
©1996.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fj1k5 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Producing the World in Everyday Talk
- 2. The Welfare Trap I: Recipients
- 3. A Tenuous Advocacy
- 4. "Us"
- 5. "Them"
- 6. The Welfare Trap II: Workers
- 7. Good and (Mostly) Bad Clients
- 8. Further Productions: Attitudes and Policy
- 9. Trapped as They Are
- 10. Conclusions.