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Laboring to learn : women's literacy and poverty in the post-welfare era
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Laboring to learn : women's literacy and poverty in the post-welfare era

Author: Lorna Rivera
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Analyzing the web of ideological contradictions regarding 'work first' welfare reform policies, this title argues that poverty is produced and reproduced when women with low literacy skills are  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lorna Rivera
ISBN: 9780252033513 0252033515 9780252075551 0252075552
OCLC Number: 187549053
Description: x, 176 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Framing the blame and gain --
Hope on Magnolia Street --
Mothering in the war years --
Around the round table --
Women of strength --
Laboring to learn, learning to labor --
Epilogue : an unfinished conversation.
Responsibility: Lorna Rivera.
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"Given the increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S., there is a desperate need for the kind of scholarship that Laboring to Learn contributes to the field. There is no other text that Read more...

 
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