Hard labor : women and work in the post-welfare era
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Bibliographic Information
Hard labor : women and work in the post-welfare era
(Issues in work and human resources)
M.E. Sharpe, c1999
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 21 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An in-depth view of the world of low-wage women workers, this expert presentation by authors actively involved in the field provides a realistic picture of the women and the issues as well as suggested strategies and innovations. The book covers a wide range of topics, including getting and keeping a job, struggling to balance the demands of work and family, health care, child care, and unemployment. It is set in the context of both welfare reform and the low-wage labor market and incorporates both self-employment and micro-business enterprise.
Table of Contents
- Low-Wage Work "As We Know It": What's Wrong/What Can Be Done, Joel F. Handler
- 2. Welfare Restructuring and Working Poor Family Policy: The New Context, Mark Greenberg
- 3. Barriers to Finding and Maintaining Jobs: The Perspective of Workers and Employers in the Low-Wage Labor Market, Julia R. Henly
- 4. Self-Employment: Possibilities and Problems, Susan R. Jones
- 5. Shaping Regional Economies to Sustain Quality Work: The Cooperative Health Care Federation, Peter Pitegoff
- 6. Quality Child Care for Low-income Families: Despair, Impasse, Improvisation, Lucie White
- 7. The Health Care Puzzle: Creating Coverage for Low-Wage Workers and Their Families, Louise G. Trubek
- 8. Unemployment Insurance and Low Wage Work, Lucy Williams
- 9. Community-Based, Employment-Related Services, Yeheskel Hasenfeld and Joel F. Handler
- 10. The Perils of advocacy: Listening, Labeling Appropriating, Kathleen Sullivan
- 11. Afterword: What's the Globe Got to Do with it? Fran Ansley
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