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Welfare Reform A Success?, Laura Stivers Nov 1999

Welfare Reform A Success?, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Work your way out of poverty." This is the message women on welfare are receiving today. The philosophy is to end government's role and let people take care of themselves.  

One way to limit government's role is by cutting welfare services. 1996 "welfare reform" tightened eligibility requirements, limited the number of years that individuals can receive welfare, and instituted work requirements. This shift to emphasizing work might be good. According to the new book, No Shame in My Game by Katherine Newman, poor people prefer working for low wages to being on welfare. High value is accorded the Protestant …

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Women, Work, And Wages, Laura Stivers Mar 1999

Women, Work, And Wages, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

We know women earn 74 cents for every dollar men earn, but why? 

Start with the reality that 80 percent of U.S. workers do routine production or service work, like answering phones or selling clothes, and their paychecks have shrunk. The other 20 percent of workers use advanced technology or make decisions about money, like engineers or stockbrokers, and their pay has increased. Yes, most women are in the first category.  

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Lives In Motion: Composing Circles Of Self And Community In Japan. Edited By Susan Orpett Long, Susan Long Dec 1998

Lives In Motion: Composing Circles Of Self And Community In Japan. Edited By Susan Orpett Long, Susan Long

Susan O Long

From the deathbed to the commuter railway station, from the marriage market to the fish market, from the baseball field to the grave, this volume explores the diversity of contemporary Japanese society by studying how people "compose" their families, their communities, and their own identities. Challenging fixed boundaries characteristic of institutional analysis, these essays comprise an anthropology of real people who age, who play, and whose lives speak to ours even over chasms of cultural differences and misunderstandings. The contributors are historians, sociologists, and anthropologists of Japan who engage these ideas in their research and who have been inspired over …

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