{"product_id":"both-hands-tied-welfare-reform-and-the-race-to-the-bottom-in-the-low-wage-labor-market-paperback","title":"Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane L. Collins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoth Hands Tied\u003c\/i\u003e 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 them and they turned to the state for additional aid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer here examine the situations of these women in light of the 1996 national Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and other like-minded reforms-laws that ended the entitlement to welfare for those in need and provided an incentive for them to return to work. Arguing that this reform came at a time of gendered change in the labor force and profound shifts in the responsibilities of family, firms, and the state, \u003ci\u003eBoth Hands Tied\u003c\/i\u003e provides a stark but poignant portrait of how welfare reform afflicted poor, single-parent families, ultimately eroding the participants' economic rights and affecting their ability to care for themselves and their children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane L. Collins \u003c\/b\u003eis the Evjue Bascom Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of \u003ci\u003eThreads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry\u003c\/i\u003e, among other titles. \u003cb\u003eVictoria Mayer\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor of sociology at Colby College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724538449983,"sku":"9780226114064","price":57.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/449e8e2a5593bd870292bb042ab1c7ae.webp?v=1765103015","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/both-hands-tied-welfare-reform-and-the-race-to-the-bottom-in-the-low-wage-labor-market-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}