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Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era - Softcover

Rivera, Lorna

 
9780252075551: Laboring to Learn: Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252075552 ISBN 13: 9780252075551
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid. Very little has been published about women’s experiences in these mandatory programs and whether the programs reproduce the conditions that forced women to drop out in the first place. Lorna Rivera bridges the gap with this important study, the product of ten years’ active ethnographic research with formerly homeless women who participated in adult literacy education classes before and after welfare reform. Analyzing the web of ideological contradictions regarding “work first” welfare reform policies, Rivera argues that poverty is produced and reproduced when women with low literacy skills are pushed into welfare-to-work programs and denied education.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lorna Rivera is an associate professor of sociology and community studies in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252075552
ISBN 13 
9780252075551
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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