Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

by Jane L. Collins (Author), Victoria Mayer (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2010

  $31.22

  Studies the working poor in the United States, focusing 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, this title tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying jobs.