Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters

by Judith Levine

Book Overview

Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers--and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help.

By comparing low-income mothers' experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women's struggles to gain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520274725
• ISBN13: 9780520274723
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"