Choosing Work and Family: Poor and Low-Income Mothers' Work-Family Commitments.
This article sheds light on the work and family lives of those women with greater constraints on their work-life choices than the professional mothers driving the so called opt out revolution. I use qualitative interviews of a diverse group of poor and working class women on and off welfare to exami...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Poverty Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 152 - 173 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009
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