Good parents or good workers? : how policy shapes families' daily lives

Good parents or good workers? : how policy shapes families' daily lives / edited by Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller.

"Good Parents or Good Workers?" draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social program...

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Other Authors: Berrick, Jill Duerr, Fuller, Bruce
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Poor families > Government policy > United States > Congresses.
Family policy > United States > Congresses.
Public welfare > United States > Congresses.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Alternative Family.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Reference.
Family policy
Public welfare
Armut
Sozialpolitik
Familie
Berufstätigkeit
United States
USA
Conference papers and proceedings
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Summary:"Good Parents or Good Workers?" draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates." Good Parents or Good Workers?" is an important text on th.
Item Description:Papers originally presented at a national conference sponsored by the Haas Jr. Fund of San Francisco in 2001.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 186 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781403980533
1403980535
1403969647
9781403969644
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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