Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules--and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid. Jane L. Collins and Victoria ...
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Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules--and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid. Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer here examine the situations of these women in light of the 1996 national Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and other like-minded reforms--laws that ended the entitlement to welfare for those in need and provided an incentive for them to return to work. Arguing that this reform came at a time of gendered change in the labor force and profound shifts in the responsibilities of family, firms, and the state, Both Hands Tied provides a stark but poignant portrait of how welfare reform afflicted poor, single-parent families, ultimately eroding the participants' economic rights and affecting their ability to care for themselves and their children.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 219 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2009030879 Type of material Book Personal name Collins, Jane Lou, 1954-Main title Both hands tied: welfare reform and the race to the bottom in the low-wage labor market / Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer. Published/Created Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. Description xiii, 219 p.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780226114057 (cloth: alk. paper) 0226114058 (cloth: alk. paper) 9780226114064 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226114066 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HD8072.5. C656 2010 Related names Mayer, Victoria. Contents Introduction: the connection between welfare and work--Welfare reform's context: the growth of the low-wage service sector--Welfare reform's content: building connections between work and welfare--Tying the first hand: the solitary wage bargain--Tying the second hand: challenges to economic citizenship--Both hands tied: the race to the bottom in the low-wage labor market--Untied hands: a new vision of economic citizenship. Subjects Working poor--United States. Poor--Employment--United States. Poor women--Employment--United States. Public welfare--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-213) and index. Dewey class no. 331.5/4 Geographic area code n-us---
