{"product_id":"not-working-latina-immigrants-low-wage-jobs-and-the-failure-of-welfare-reform-9780814757109","title":"Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot Working\u003c\/b\u003e chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, \"work\" means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead-end jobs that leave one physically and psychically exhausted.\u003cbr\u003eThrough vivid story-telling and pointed analysis, \u003cb\u003eNot Working\u003c\/b\u003e profiles the day-to-day struggles of Mexican immigrant women in the Los Angeles area, showing the increased vulnerability they face in the welfare office and labor market. The new \"work first\" policies now enacted impose time limits and mandate work requirements for those receiving public assistance, yet fail to offer real job training or needed childcare options, ultimately causing many families to fall deeper below the poverty line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot Working\u003c\/b\u003e shows that the new \"welfare-to-work\" regime has produced tremendous instability and insecurity for these women and their children. Moreover, the authors argue that the new politics of welfare enable greater infringements of rights and liberty for many of America's most vulnerable and constitute a crucial component of the broader assault on American citizenship. In short, the new welfare is not working.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.74d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814757109\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarchevsky, Alejandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAlejandra Marchevsky\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of liberal studies at California State University, Los Angeles.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheoharis, Jeanne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJeanne Theoharis \u003c\/b\u003eis distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College of CUNY. She is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle outside of the South\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press, 2019), \u003ci\u003eA More Beautiful and Terrible History\u003c\/i\u003e (Beacon Press, 2018), \u003ci\u003eThe Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks\u003c\/i\u003e (Beacon Press, 2013), \u003ci\u003eWant to Start A Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press 2009), \u003ci\u003eOur Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press 2009), and \u003ci\u003eNot Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press 2006).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40239073034355,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_8655cd6e-2ea0-43bb-a5c1-66a0a2d37c61.jpg?v=1657114066","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/not-working-latina-immigrants-low-wage-jobs-and-the-failure-of-welfare-reform-9780814757109","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}