{"product_id":"9780226114071","title":"Both Hands Tied: Welfare Reform and the Race to the Bottom in the Low-Wage Labor Market","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoth Hands Tied\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane L. Collins and Victoria Mayer here examine the situations of these women in light of the 1996 national Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and other like-minded reforms—laws that ended the entitlement to welfare for those in need and provided an incentive for them to return to work. Arguing that this reform came at a time of gendered change in the labor force and profound shifts in the responsibilities of family, firms, and the state, \u003ci\u003eBoth Hands Tied\u003c\/i\u003e provides a stark but poignant portrait of how welfare reform afflicted poor, single-parent families, ultimately eroding the participants’ economic rights and affecting their ability to care for themselves and their children.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120091775216,"sku":"9780226114071","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226114071_p0.jpg?v=1765232795","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226114071","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}