Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
by
Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, “work” means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead-end...