Laboring to Learn Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
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Lorna Rivera is an associate professor of sociology and community studies in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.Laboring to Learn Women's Literacy and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era
"A vivid, intimate, and sympathetic portrayal of the hardships that the Project Hope women face in attempting to secure affordable housing, in coordinating their child care and their commutes to and from suburban shelters with rigid schedules, and in living with the memory or the present reality of domestic and sexual abuse. . . . A rare window into the street-level practices of adult literacy education--<i>American Journal of Sociology</i><br />"A masterful study documenting the punitive outcome welfare reform has had on low-income women."--<i>Adult Education Quarterly</i>
"A vivid, intimate, and sympathetic portrayal of the hardships that the Project Hope women face in attempting to secure affordable housing, in coordinating their child care and their commutes to and from suburban shelters with rigid schedules, and in living with the memory or the present reality of domestic and sexual abuse. . . . A rare window into the street-level practices of adult literacy education--<i>American Journal of Sociology</i><br />"A masterful study documenting the punitive outcome welfare reform has had on low-income women."--<i>Adult Education Quarterly</i>