Not working Latina immigrants, low-wage jobs, and the failure of welfare reform / Alejandra Marchevsky and Jeanne Theoharis.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Latinas on the fault lines of citizenship
- PART I: NEITHER A HANDUP NOR A HANDOUT: Ending welfare: new nativism and the triumph of post-civil rights politics
- Powers in the suburbs: race and redevelopment policy in Long Beach
- PART II: ANY JOB AT ANY WAGE: Tough love in L. A. County: the failure of welfare-to-work
- The myth of welfare dependency: caught between welfare and work
- "It's not what you choose, but where they send you": inside personal responsibility
- Conclusion: The emperor's new welfare: reassessing the "success" of welfare reform.