Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market

by Victoria Mayer and Jane L. Collins

Book Overview

Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules--and the moments when these jobs failed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226114066
• ISBN13: 9780226114064
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"