| Acknowledgments | vii | |
| Introduction: Latinas on the Fault Lines of Citizenship | 1 | |
| PART I Neither a Hand Up nor a Handout | ||
| 1 | Ending Welfare: New Nativism and the Triumph of Post–Civil Rights Politics | 33 |
| 2 | Poverty in the Suburbs: Race and Redevelopment Policy in Long Beach | 68 |
| PART II Any Job at Any Wage | ||
| 3 | Tough Love in L.A. County: The Failure of Welfare-to-Work | 111 |
| 4 | The Myth of Welfare Dependency: Caught between Welfare and Work | 140 |
| 5 | “It's Not What You Choose, but Where They Send You”: Inside Personal Responsibility | 169 |
| Conclusion: The Emperor's New Welfare: Reassessing the “Success” of Welfare Reform | 200 | |
| Notes | 245 | |
| Index | 297 | |
| About the Authors | 308 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform.
Contributors: Alejandra Marchevsky - Author, Jeanne Theoharis - Author.
Publisher: New York University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2006.
Page number: v.
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