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Not Working
Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
by Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 2006 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5710-9, ISBN: 0-8147-5710-3

"Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, "work" means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead-end jobs that leave one physically and psychically exhausted. Through vivid story-telling and pointed analysis, Not Working profiles the day-to-day s ..."

Not Working
Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform
by Alejandra Marchevskyjeanne Theoharis, Jeanne Theoharis
Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 2006 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5709-3, ISBN: 0-8147-5709-X

"Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. For those who now receive public assistance, “work” means pleading with supervisors for full-time hours, juggling ever-changing work schedules, and shuffling between dead-end jobs that leave one physically and psychically exhausted.Through vivid story-telling and pointed analysis, Not Working profiles the day-to-day st ..."

Working the Diaspora
The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 (Culture, Labor, History)
by Frederick C. Knight, Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis
Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2010 by Nyu Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4818-3, ISBN: 0-8147-4818-X

"From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North A ..."