Timed Out: Temporal Struggles between the State and the Poor in the Context of U.S. Welfare Reform

1999 Dozier Award Winner === Welfare reform, in its attempts to order the lives of women on cash assistance, uses time as a means of controlling women. Single mothers living in poverty experience, perceive and use time in ways that the state welfare bureaucracy fails to recognize and/or refuses to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coelho, Karen
Other Authors: University of Arizona
Language:en_US
Published: University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110078