Quick attachments to the workforce: An ethnographic analysis of a transition from welfare to low-wage jobs

Social Work Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 225-232

  Riemer, Frances J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment training; Ethnography; Resistance; Welfare; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011056457     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/21.4.225     Document Type: Article

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