Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-wage Jobs and the Failure of Welfare Reform

Alejandra Marchevsky,Jeanne Theoharis

Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-wage Jobs and the Failure of Welfare Reform
Format
Hardback
Publisher
New York University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 July 2007
Pages
336
ISBN
9780814757093

Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-wage Jobs and the Failure of Welfare Reform

Alejandra Marchevsky,Jeanne Theoharis

Not Working chronicles the devastating effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended welfare as we know it. Through vivid story-telling and pointed analysis, the book profiles the day-to-day struggles of Mexican immigrant women in the Los Angeles area, showing the increased vulnerability they face in the welfare office and labor market. The new work first policies now enacted impose time limits and mandate work requirements for those receiving public assistance, yet fail to offer real job training or needed childcare options, ultimately causing many families to fall deeper below the poverty line. Not Working shows that the new welfare-to-work regime has produced tremendous instability and insecurity for these women and their children. Moreover, the authors argue that the new politics of welfare enable greater infringements of rights and liberty for many of America’s most vulnerable and constitute a crucial component of the broader assault on American citizenship. In short, the new welfare is not working.

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