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UNINA9910452603803321 |
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Titolo |
Coping with poverty [[electronic resource] ] : the social contexts of neighborhood, work, and family in the African-American community / / edited by Sheldon Danziger and Ann Chih Lin |
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Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2000 |
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1-280-99789-3 |
9786613769503 |
0-472-02358-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (301 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DanzigerSheldon |
LinAnn Chih |
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African Americans - Social conditions - 1975- |
Urban poor - United States |
African Americans - Economic conditions |
African Americans - Employment |
Urban policy - United States |
African American families - Social conditions |
Inner cities - United States |
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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 bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Interpretive Research for Public Policy; Part 1 Neighborhood: Family and Community as Supports; 2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community; 3. Communal Isolation: Narrowing the Pathways to Goal Attainment and Work; 4. Negotiating Adolescence in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood; Part 2 Employment: From Removing Barriers to Coping with Obstacles; 5. Dreamkeeping in the Inner City: Diminishing the Divide Between Aspirations and Expectations |
6. On the Outside Looking In: Low-Income Black Men's Conceptions of Work Opportunity and the Good Job7. Black Male Employment and Self-Su.ciency; Part 3 Parenting: From Enforcing Responsibility to Enabling |
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Care; 8. Mother, Worker, Welfare Recipient: Welfare Reform and the Multiple Roles of Low-Income Women; 9. Work Preparation and Labor Market Experiences Among Urban, Poor, Nonresident Fathers; Conclusion; 10. Social Contexts in the Making of Public Policy; Contributors; Index |
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UNINA9910821359803321 |
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Autore |
Cook Ramsay |
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The politics of John W. Dafoe and the Free press / / Ramsay Cook |
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Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1963 |
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©1963 |
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1-4426-3764-1 |
1-4426-5309-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-) |
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Canada Politics and government 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- I. Self- Made Man -- II. Sifton's Lieutenant 1901-5 -- III. Liberalism: Domestic and Imperial 1906-11 -- IV. The Luxury of Opposition 1911-14 -- V. The War and a New Political Alignment 1914-17 -- VI. Ushering in a New World 1918-20 -- VII. "In the Lap of the Gods" 1920-3 -- VIII. The Triumph of Liberal Nationalism 1921-3 -- IX. Lord Byng Intervenes 1924-6 -- X. Canada, the Commonwealth and the World 1923-30 -- XI. Bennett, King and Chaos 1927-37 -- XII. Remodelling the Canadian Constitution -- XIII. The Whole World in Travail 1929-39 -- XIV. Canada Fights 1939-44 -- XV. Western Liberal Nationalist -- A Note on Sources -- Index |
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This book is a study at close quarters of Dafoe, the man of politics. It is the biography of a political mind. The impression is of a mind recalled to its full vigour, for no prejudgments have been made about it and no |
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