Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market
by: Jane L. Collins, Victoria Mayer

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, 2nd pr., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 219 pages. Both Hands Tied studies the working poor in the United States, focusing in particular on the relation between welfare and low-wage earnings among working mothers. Grounded in the experience of thirty-three women living in Milwaukee and Racine, Wisconsin, it tells the story of their struggle to balance child care and wage-earning in poorly paying and often state-funded jobs with inflexible schedules--and the moments when these jobs failed them and they turned to the state for additional aid. Clean copy.