The Poverty of Life-Affirming Work
Subtitle: Motherwork, Education, and Social Change (Contributions in Women's Studies)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: December 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780313317767
Subjects: Parenthood; Welfare & benefit systems; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Ethnic Studies - General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Sociology - General; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / General; Poor women; Single mothers; Social conditions; United States; Welfare recipients
First sentence: While motherwork and all it entails have never been acknowledged as vitally important work, the recent political move of "ending welfare as we know it" has twisted this work into a sign of moral failing.