Good parents or good workers? : how policy shapes families' daily lives / / edited by Jill Duerr Berrick and Bruce Fuller

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.850973
• Soggetto topico: Poor families - Government policy - United States; Family policy - United States; Public welfare - United States
• Altri autori: BerrickJill Duerr FullerBruce
• Note generali: Papers originally presented at a national conference sponsored by the Haas Jr. Fund of San Francisco in 2001.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: ""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
• Titolo autorizzato: Good Parents or Good Workers
• ISBN: 1-281-36869-5; 9786611368692; 1-4039-8053-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817656003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II