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Working at the Margins : Moving off Welfare in America / Frances Julia Riemer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riemer, Frances J.
- Series:
- SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
- SUNY series, power, social identity, and education Working at the margins
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Single mothers--Employment--United States.
- Single mothers.
- Welfare recipients--Employment--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 297 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Working at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: Myths and Realities
- The Stories
- Development and the Hardest to Serve
- Church Hall and Single Mothers on Welfare
- Concordance Steps and Southeast Asian Refugees
- Jackson Hospital’s Pharmacies and the Cream of the Unemployed
- What the Stories Mean
- Analyzing the Circle
- Other Possibilities
- Ethnographic Methodology and Methods
- The People
- State-Mandated Nurse Assistant Certification Training (Forlizzi 1992)
- Church Hall’s Clinical Performance Summary
- Pharmacy Committees at Jackson Hospital
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-286) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780791490730
- 0791490734
- OCLC:
- 794701368
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