Taking care of business: The economic survival strategies of low-income, noncustodial fathers

Laboring Below The Line: The New Ethnography of Poverty, Low-Wage Work, and Survival in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 125-147

  Edin, Kathryn ^a   Lein, Laura ^b   Nelson, Timothy ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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