Not working [electronic resource] : Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform / Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis.
Publication details: New York : New York University Press, c2006.Description: xi, 308 pISBN:- 081475709X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814757103 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program)
- Immigrants -- California -- Long Beach -- Economic conditions
- Immigrants -- California -- Long Beach -- Social conditions
- Mexican American women -- California -- Long Beach -- Economic conditions
- Mexican American women -- California -- Long Beach -- Social conditions
- Public welfare -- Political aspects -- United States
- Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States
- 362.5/84 22
- HV95 .M2737 2006eb
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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.
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