The poverty of life-affirming work
Subtitle: motherwork, education, and social change
By: Mechthild U. Hart.
Series: Contributions in women's studies -- no. 194
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Subjects: Poor women -- United States -- Social conditions; Single mothers -- United States -- Social conditions; Welfare recipients -- United States -- Social conditions; Public welfare -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: The war against subsistence; title: "I ache when I think of my children" : raising children in Chicago's public housing; title: Welfare mothers : invisible work becoming visible; title: and invisible again; title: Literacy and motherwork; title: Teaching and learning as a political ally; title: Creating and sustaining life and community.