Ain't No Trust: "How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters"
Judith Levine
Abstract
This book explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the United States—at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers—and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help. By comparing low-income mothers' experiences before and after welfare reform, the author probes women's struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their children, often as single mothers. By offering a new way to understand how structural factors impact the daily ... More
Keywords: trust, distrust, low-income women, United States, work, childcare, welfare system, welfare reform, poor women, relationships
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780520274716 |
| Published to California Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.1525/california/9780520274716.001.0001 |
