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Both Hands Tied

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  • Collins, Jane L.
  • Mayer, Victoria

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Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules—and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid. Jane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer here examine the situations of these women in light of the 1996 national Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and other like-minded reforms—laws that ended the entitlement to welfare for those in need and provided an incentive for them to return to work. Arguing that this reform came at a time of gendered change in the labor force and profound shifts in the responsibilities of family, firms, and the state, Both Hands Tied provides a stark but poignant portrait of how welfare reform afflicted poor, single-parent families, ultimately eroding the participants’ economic rights and affecting their ability to care for themselves and their children.

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  • Collins, Jane L. & Mayer, Victoria, 2010. "Both Hands Tied," University of Chicago Press Economics Books, University of Chicago Press, number 9780226114064, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:ucp:bkecon:9780226114064
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    1. Sarah K. Bruch & Janet C. Gornick & Joseph van der Naald, 2020. "Geographic Inequality in Social Provision: Variation across the US States," NBER Chapters, in: Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth, pages 499-527, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Anna W. Jacobs & Irene Padavic, 2015. "Hours, Scheduling and Flexibility for Women in the US Low-Wage Labour Force," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 22(1), pages 67-86, January.
    3. Merin Oleschuk, 2022. "Who should feed hungry families during crisis? Moral claims about hunger on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 39(4), pages 1437-1449, December.
    4. Gowan, Teresa & Whetstone, Sarah & Andic, Tanja, 2012. "Addiction, agency, and the politics of self-control: Doing harm reduction in a heroin users’ group," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(8), pages 1251-1260.
    5. Angela Bruns Bruns, 2016. "Consequences of Partner Incarceration for Women's Employment," Working Papers 16-01-ff, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing..
    6. Sattler, Leslie J. & Thomas, Kristie A., 2016. "“Parents need a village”: Caseworkers' perceptions of the challenges faced by single parents of system-involved youth," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 293-301.

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