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Author Riemer, Frances J.

Title Working at the margins : moving off welfare in America / Frances Julia Riemer.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]
©2001

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  331.54 R556W    Check Shelf
Description xx, 297 pages ; 24 cm.
Series SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
SUNY series, power, social identity, and education.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
Contents Introduction: Myths and realities -- Part I: The stories -- Chapter 1: Development and the hardest to serve -- Chapter 2: Church hall and single mothers on welfare -- Chapter 3: Concordance steps and Southeast Asian refugees -- Chapter 4: Jackson Hospital's pharmacies and the cream of the unemployed -- Part II: What the stories mean -- Chapter 5: Analyzing the circle -- Chapter 6: Other possibilities -- Appendix A: Ethnographic methodology and methods -- Appendix B: The people -- Appendix C: State mandated content of nurse aide training -- Appendix D: Church hall's clinical performance summary -- Appendix E: Pharmacy committees at Jackson's Hospital.
Subject Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States.
Single mothers -- Employment -- United States.
Public welfare -- United States.
ISBN 0791449254 alkaline paper
0791449262 paperback alkaline paper
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