Independent workers, dependable mothers: Discourse, resistance, and AFDC workfare programs

Social Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 161-202

  Little, Deborah L ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/sp/6.2.161     Document Type: Article

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