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Making it Work - Low-wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development (Paperback)
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Making it Work - Low-wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development (Paperback)
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Loot Price R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
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Low-skilled women in the 1990s took widely different paths in
trying to support their children. Some held good jobs with growth
potential, some cycled in and out of low-paying jobs, some worked
part time, and others stayed out of the labor force entirely.
Scholars have closely analyzed the economic consequences of these
varied trajectories, but little research has focused on the
consequences of a mother s career path on her children s
development.Making It Work, edited by Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Thomas
Weisner, and Edward Lowe, looks past the economic statistics to
illustrate how different employment trajectories affect the social
and emotional lives of poor women and their children. Making It
Work examines Milwaukee s New Hope program, an experiment testing
the effectiveness of an anti-poverty initiative that provided
health and child care subsidies, wage supplements, and other
services to full-time low-wage workers. Employing parent surveys,
teacher reports, child assessment measures, ethnographic studies,
and state administrative records, Making It Work provides a
detailed picture of how a mother s work trajectory affects her, her
family, and her children s school performance, social behavior, and
expectations for the future. Rashmita Mistry and Edward D. Lowe
find that increases in a mother s income were linked to higher
school performance in her children. Without large financial
worries, mothers gained extra confidence in their ability to
parent, which translated into better test scores and higher teacher
appraisals for their children. JoAnn Hsueh finds that the children
of women with erratic work schedules and non-standard hours
conditions endemic to the low-skilled labor market exhibited higher
levels of anxiety and depression. Conversely, Noemi
Enchautegui-de-Jesus, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Vonnie McLoyd
discover that better job quality predicted lower levels of
acting-out and withdrawal among children. Perhaps most
surprisingly, Anna Gassman-Pines, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Sandra
Nay note that as wages for these workers rose, so did their
marriage rates, suggesting that those worried about family values
should also be concerned with alleviating poverty in America."
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