A desperate means to dignity: Work refusal amongst Philadelphia welfare recipients

Ethnography

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-60

  Cleaveland, Carol ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

poverty; welfare to work; women's experience; work refusal; working poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247672315     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138105055656     Document Type: Article

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