Working at the Margins: Moving off Welfare in America

Frances Julia Riemer

2012년 2월 · State University of New York Press

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Working at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.

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Frances Julia Riemer is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.