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Autore |
Berrick Jill Duerr |
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Titolo |
Good Parents or Good Workers? [[electronic resource] ] : How Policy Shapes Families' Daily Lives |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-36869-5 |
9786611368692 |
1-4039-8053-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (199 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Family policy |
Poor families |
Public welfare |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: New Family Policy: How the State Shapes Parents' Lives; Section I The Good Worker/The Good Mother; Section II Policy Effects on Poor Children; Section III The Good Father; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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""Good Parents or Good Workers?"" draws upon new ethnographic studies and longitudinal interviews that are reporting on the daily lives of women and children under new welfare policy pressures. Contributors look at family policy in the context of daily demands and critique new social programs that are designed to strengthen families. The book is divided into three course-friendly sections that deal with the impact of welfare reform on caregiving, the lived experiences of low-income families, and family policy debates."" Good Parents or Good Workers?"" is an important text on the impacts of wel |
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