Flat broke with children
Subtitle: women in the age of welfare reform
By: Sharon Hays.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: United States; Public welfare -- United States; Welfare recipients -- United States; Poor women -- United States; Mothers -- United States; Low-income single mothers -- United States
Description: "In Flat Broke With Children, Sharon Hays tells us the story of welfare reform from inside the welfare office and inside the lives of welfare mothers, describing the challenges that welfare recipients face in managing their work, their families, and the rules and regulations of welfare reform." "Hays devoted three years to visiting welfare clients and two welfare offices, one in a medium-sized town in the Southeast, another in a large, metropolitan area in the West. Drawing on this hands-on research, Flat Broke With Children is the first book to explore the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives, and the first book to offer us a portrait of how welfare reform plays out in thousands of local welfare offices and in millions of homes across the nation."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Money and morality; title: Enforcing the work ethic; title: Promoting family values; title: Fear, hope, and resignation in the welfare office; title: Pyramids of inequality; title: Invisibility and inclusion; title: The cultures of poverty; title: The "success" of welfare reform.