The Work of Mothers
Strategies for Survival in an Inner-City Neighborhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12455750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Puntenney (corresponding author), Deborah L Puntenney |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 63-92 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Poverty (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-5549 • E-ISSN: 1540-7608 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1300/j134v03n04_04 |
| OpenAlex | W1575451079 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 40 |
Employment is increasingly important to poor mothers because they face both the need to supplement their inadequate public assistance benefits, and the eventual loss of benefits that will result from recent changes in welfare policy. At the same time, they are engaged in extensive unpaid caregiving work for which they find little support. This article examines how poor mothers balance productive and reproductive work and explores the factors that influence how these patterns are generated. The research uses long-term participant observation in an inner-city public housing development, and in-depth interviews among 56 resident welfare mothers to explore these questions. The findings illustrate that some mothers are already working at full capacity, managing labor market and caregiving work in the midst of circumstances-including gang violence, serious health problems among individuals for whom they have undertaken responsibility, and illogical and punitive welfare systems-that are far beyond their control
Control (management · Developmental psychology · Economic growth · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Political science · Public assistance · Public policy · Punitive damages · Single mothers · Social policy · Sociology · Welfare · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology
Making Ends Meet
Feeding the family
The overworked American
Pitied but not entitled
Dollars and dreams
Lives on the Edge
The Opportunity Costs of Elder Care
The Structure of the Female/Male Wage Differential
The social order of the slum
All our kin
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
Working from the Margins
Black Grandparents Rearing Children of Drug-Addicted Parents
Minority Unemployment, Labor Market Segmentation, and the Failure of Job-Training Policy in New York City
A Feminist Case Against National Family Policy
Dependency” Demystified
Turning Job Finders into Job Keepers
Welfare Recipients' Job Skills and Employment Prospects
Welfare policy
Women and Children Last
Measuring the Pay Disparity between Typically Female Occupations and Other Jobs
The Rise of Advanced Marginality
Women, Class and the Feminist Imagination
Work and Welfare
The Gender Basis of American Social Policy
Does the Market for Women's Labor Need Fixing
Working from the Margins
Familial Caretaking
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2007 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |