Working steady: Race, low-wage work, and family involvement among noncustodial fathers in Philadelphia

Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 375-404

  Edin, Kathryn ^a   Nelson, Timothy J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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