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- Working at the Margins: Moving off Welfare in America
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series, Power, Social Identity, and Education
summary
Uses case study narratives of marginalized adults in evaluating the move from welfare to work. Working at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.
Table of Contents
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- PART I: THE STORIES
- PART II: WHAT THE STORIES MEAN
- Chapter 5: Analyzing the Circle
- pp. 181-211
- Chapter 6: Other Possibilities
- pp. 212-236
- Appendix B: The People
- pp. 257-261
- References
- pp. 277-286
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791490730
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
794701368
Pages
317
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No