Flat broke with children : women in the age of welfare reform /
Sharon Hays.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- x, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
American Window
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.
Money and morality -- Enforcing the work ethic -- Promoting family values -- Fear, hope, and resignation in the welfare office -- Pyramids of inequality -- Invisibility and inclusion -- The cultures of poverty -- The "success" of welfare reform.
0195132882 (acidfree paper)
2002009841
United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Low-income single mothers--United States. Mothers--United States. Poor women--United States. Public welfare--United States. Welfare recipients--United States.