TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marchevsky,Alejandra
AU  - Theoharis,Jeanne
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Not working: Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform 
AV  - HV95 .M2737 2006eb
U1  - 362.5/84 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)
KW  - United States
KW  - Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
KW  - Welfare recipients
KW  - Employment
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Mexican American women
KW  - California
KW  - Long Beach
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-295) and index; Introduction: Latinas on the fault lines of citizenship -- PART I: NEITHER A HANDUP NOR A HANDOUT: Ending welfare: new nativism and the triumph of post-civil rights politics -- Powers in the suburbs: race and redevelopment policy in Long Beach -- PART II: ANY JOB AT ANY WAGE: Tough love in L. A. County: the failure of welfare-to-work -- The myth of welfare dependency: caught between welfare and work -- "It's not what you choose, but where they send you": inside personal responsibility -- Conclusion: The emperor's new welfare: reassessing the "success" of welfare reform; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10170567
ER  -