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Jane L. Collins is the Evjue Bascom Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of WisconsinMadison and the author of Threads: Gender, Labor and Power in the Global Apparel Industry, among other titles. Victoria Mayer is assistant professor of sociology at Colby College.
List of Illustrations | p. vi |
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Introduction: The Connection between Welfare and Work | p. 1 |
Welfare Reform's Context: The Growth of the Low-Wage Service Sector | p. 26 |
Welfare Reform's Content: Building Connections between Work and Welfare | p. 55 |
Tying the First Hand: The Solitary Wage Bargain | p. 83 |
Tying the Second Hand: Challenges to Economic Citizenship | p. 114 |
Both Hands Tied: The Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market | p. 147 |
Conclusion: Untying the Hands | p. 159 |
Description of Interview Process | p. 165 |
Interview Protocol | p. 167 |
Economic Composition of Sample | p. 174 |
Industrial Composition of Milwaukee and Racine | p. 175 |
Wisconsin Works (W-2) Documents | p. 177 |
Notes | p. 179 |
References | p. 201 |
Index | p. 215 |
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