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Women in the American Welfare Trap

Paperback • 2011 • English

Women in the American Welfare Trap

By Catherine Kingfisher

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<p>In the United States, a majority of the poor and those who work with the poor are women. Recipients of public assistance and the welfare workers who serve them are both trapped at the bottom of the American welfare system. How do they perceive their place in society? How do they assess their self-worth in the hierarchy of a bureaucratic system? In this ethnographic study of a welfare office and two welfare rights groups, Catherine Pelissier Kingfisher addresses these issues in a thought-provo...Show more

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ISBN

9780812215151

Publisher

Philadelphia, PA, USA : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Women in the American Welfare Trap

Format

Paperback

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