Mothers First, Not Work First: Listening to Welfare Clients in Job Training

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 217-235

  Cooney, Kate ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

critical theory; family; grounded theory; welfare reform; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248601783     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325006064258     Document Type: Article

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