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Good parents or good workers? : how policy shapes families' daily lives / edited by Jill Duerr Berrick, Bruce Fuller.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor families--Government policy--United States.
- Poor families.
- Family policy--United States.
- Family policy.
- Government policy.
- United States.
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 186 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- "Good Parents or Good Workers?" draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates." Good Parents or Good Workers?" is an important text on the impacts of welfare reform that will be essential reading in a variety of courses in education, sociology, and politics.
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a national conference sponsored by the Haas Jr. Fund of San Francisco in 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403969647
- OCLC:
- 57342112
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