Frances Julia Riemer 
Working at the Margins [PDF ebook] 
Moving off Welfare in America

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Uses case study narratives of marginalized adults in evaluating the move from welfare to work.

Working at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.

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Table des matières

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Myths and Realities
PART I: THE STORIES
1. Development and the Hardest to Serve

Naming the Hardest to Serve

An Institutional History

The Reality of the Hardest to Serve

Conceptualizing the Hardest to Serve

Socialization for Work

Computers in the Learning Lab

Life Skills

Supported Work

The Social Organization of Work

Justification

Exceptions to the Rule

Perceiving Inequities

Negotiating the Naming

An Imperfect Fit

Resistance

Against Each Other

Cooling Out

Staying

Full Circle


2. Church Hall and Single Mothers on Welfare


Getting There

Single Mothers and Welfare

Training to Compensate

Blending In

Certification Training

The Work

Local Knowledge

A Professional Hierarchy

Different, Strange, and Even Dangerous

A Lack of Respect

Carving Spaces

Few Options

Protests of Denial

Viewing Practice in Piecemeal


3. Concordance Steps and Southeast Asian Refugees


Refugee as Identity

A Political History

Adult Learners

The Labor Market

Skills Training and Hands-On Learning

Job Placement

The Social Organization of Work

Cambodians Are a Little Better

The Language Barrier

Errors on the Floor

You Have to Know People

Appreciating Kindness

Accommodation in the Workplace

Learning to Juggle


4. Jackson Hospital’s Pharmacies and the Cream of the Unemployed


Getting There

The Collaboration

The Best Five

Broad-Based Funding

Learning Specific Knowledge

Getting Hired

An Occupation in Transition

A Good Salary

Active Members

Becoming Supervisors

Embracing the Role

Something’s Keeping Us Here


PART II: WHAT THE STORIES MEAN
5. Analyzing the Circle


The Pieces of Choosing

Training Programs

Sorting the Poor

The Underclass

Refugees

Assessment and the Cream of the Unemployed

Ranking Individuals

JTPA and Job Training

Downscaling Training

Defining Work

Making Sense

Distance from an Imperfect Fit

A Better Fit


6. Other Possibilities


Prioritizing Work

Cooling Out at Work

A Foot in the Door

Imaginings

Flexible Training Models

Educational Networks and Supports

Good Jobs, Good Pay, Good Benefits

Bucking the Natural Trend


Appendix A: Ethnographic Methodology and Methods
Appendix B: The People
Appendix C: State Mandated Content of Nurse Aide Training
Appendix D: Church Hall’s Clinical Performance Summary
Appendix E: Pharmacy Committees at Jackson’s Hospital
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

A propos de l’auteur

Frances Julia Riemer is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Northern Arizona University.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 317 ● ISBN 9780791490730 ● Taille du fichier 50.9 MB ● Maison d’édition State University of New York Press ● Lieu Albany ● Pays US ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7665444 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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