Laura Lein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 83036 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Laura Lein |
| NOMBRES | Laura |
| APELLIDO | Lein |
| FIRMA | LEIN L |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 231 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A Collaborative Framework for Envisioning the Future of Social Work Research and Education
Social workers practice in an environment where the inequities that face our clients continue to grow and increase. Disparities by race, income, and other social dimensions continue to expand and challenge our society and the core values of our profession. It is imperative that social work research supports good policy and practice approaches to eliminate health, income, and education disparities so that all members of society have the same socia…
The Policy Nexus
In this paper, we analyze a unique mixed methods data set based on survey responses (n=108) and intensive interviews (n=18) with panhandlers in Austin, Texas. We examine the way in which failures of primary and secondary social capital interact to create the conditions of extreme poverty and homelessness that lead to panhandling. We find that a large majority of these individuals are working-age adults who lack access to social policy supports th…
Household Economy
Debates about poverty—the nature of poverty, the measurement of poverty, and appropriate responses to poverty—are at the core of a great deal of research, policy debate, and political discussion. Since the 1950s the prevalence of poverty in the United States has been measured against a national poverty income line that is recalculated every year. A great deal of poverty research concentrates on income levels: how these are assessed, and their imp…
Community Lost
Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the complementary…
Displaced
Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding Katrina’s landfall. New Orleans, a city of 500,000, was nearly emptied of life after the hurricane and flooding. Katrina survivors eventually scattered across all fifty states, and tens of thousands still remain displaced. Some are desperate to return to the Gulf Coast but cannot find the means. Other…
Case Management with Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Disaster case management is an important but under-researched aspect of disaster recovery. This study explored the perspectives of case managers and supervisors about the needs of Hurricane Katrina survivors. Telephone interviews with 168 case managers and supervisors in 32 states identified client motivation and availability of resources as key factors in successful cases. Conversely, lack of client motivation perceived or resources were key fac…
The State and Civil Society Response to Disaster
This article presents a case study of the reception of low-income Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Austin, Texas, to reveal the multiple barriers and problems faced by families and individuals dislodged by Katrina, as well as the difficulties faced by the service providers. The authors surveyed evacuees who had used the emergency shelter system and received housing assistance at least 10 weeks after the disaster. These survey data are supplemented w…
Economic Survival Strategies and Food Insecurity
This article reports on a study of 67 Hurricane Katrina survivors who were evacuated to one Texas community. The authors examine the economic survival strategies employed by Katrina evacuees to feed their families during the approximately one week time frame beginning the day before the storm and ending when they were ultimately evacuated from New Orleans. An analysis of their strategies and actions provides insight both into the nature of househ…
When the Floods of Compassion Are not Enough
Hurricane Katrina exposed serious deficiencies in the social support safety net at the federal, state, and local level. This article explores the impacts of the disrupted safety net through participant observation and interviews with service providers and evacuees resettled in one southern city. Their stories illustrate how vulnerable low‐income groups struggle to cope with disaster within the context of inadequate larger support systems and the …
Ordinary Poverty
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis
The Importance of Selection Factors
Longitudinal ethnographic data of 49 families in the San Antonio site of the Three City Study illustrate the ways in which families that remain on welfare differ in important ways from families in which the mother is employed. Families that remain on welfare experience substantial health and emotional problems; have limited access to informal supports; and are headed by mothers with little education or prior work experience. These ethnographic fi…
Special Reviewers
Economic Roulette
Complementing previous literature on welfare reform and the character of jobs in the low-wage labour market, we illustrate the lack of regularity and security that mark the jobs held by many low-income mothers. To do so, we present a typology of mothers' work patterns and illustrate their experiences through case examples. Our qualitative analysis of longitudinal pathways-to-work in three cities involved an examination of the experiences of 99 di…
Feminism and the Family
With the Best of Intentions
Interviews disclosed a potential mismatch between the needs of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) recipients who requested assistance with domestic violence and the services, particularly the domestic violence waiver, offered by the TANF system. Only a third of the TANF applicants who were referred to family violence specialists requested a waiver of the TANF participation requirements, but all of them reported other barriers to employ…
Parental Involvement during the Transition to High School
In this article, the authors conducted a study to discover what types of parent involvement are effective as students make the transition to high school.This study also aimed to elaborate on the role parents play in connecting their children to desirable peer networks during this transition.In-home interviews were conducted with 26 students as well as their parents before and after entering high school.The successfulness of the students’ transiti…
Gender, Families, and State
Toward an End to Hunger in America
Community-Based Research in Policy Planning
Community-based research is considered a community change model in that it engages local community members in the definition of their problems and the formulation of broad-based solutions. Although community-based research has been used on a local level, less attention has been given to the use of community-based research in policy planning at the state level. This paper illustrates the joint efforts of state policy analysts, university researche…
But for the Grace of Birth, There Go I
Making Ends Meet
Work, Welfare, and Single Mothers' Economic Survival Strategies
Past efforts to conceptualize the effects of welfare on work have failed to consider the full range of incentives and disincentives that low-skill single mothers perceive and act upon when making the choice between welfare and work. They also have neglected the fundamental economic reality of these mothers' lives-neither welfare nor low-wage work gives single mothers enough income to meet their families'expenses. In-depth interviews with 379 low-…
More than Bread
Families without Villains
Work, Welfare, and Single Mothers' Economic Survival Strategies
Past efforts to conceptualize the effects of welfare on work have failed to consider the full range of incentives and disincentives that low-skill single mothers perceive and act upon when making the choice between welfare and work. They also have neglected the fundamental economic reality of these mothers' lives-neither welfare nor low-wage work gives single mothers enough income to meet their families'expenses. In-depth interviews with 379 low-…
Making Ends Meet
Children's disputes in three speach communities
Despite considerable recent research on child discourse, there has been little controlled cross-cultural work. Numerous valuable studies of children's speech events in specific societies are available, but comparisons are largely anecdotal and informal. Similarly, several analytical schemata have been developed to deal with particular types of discourse in particular societies (see, for example, Sinclair & Coulthard 1975; Sacks, Schegloff & Jeffe…
Economic Roulette
Complementing previous literature on welfare reform and the character of jobs in the low-wage labour market, we illustrate the lack of regularity and security that mark the jobs held by many low-income mothers. To do so, we present a typology of mothers' work patterns and illustrate their experiences through case examples. Our qualitative analysis of longitudinal pathways-to-work in three cities involved an examination of the experiences of 99 di…
Parental Involvement during the Transition to High School
In this article, the authors conducted a study to discover what types of parent involvement are effective as students make the transition to high school.This study also aimed to elaborate on the role parents play in connecting their children to desirable peer networks during this transition.In-home interviews were conducted with 26 students as well as their parents before and after entering high school.The successfulness of the students’ transiti…
Male Participation in Home Life
There is growing pressure on men to increase their participation in home life. As more and more women, particularly the mothers of young children, enter the labor force, there appears to be greater need for men to contribute to housework and childcare. This paper draws on intensive interview material with 25 Boston-area families to describe and explain the ambivalence of male response to this pressure. Because of men's different social support ne…
With the Best of Intentions
Interviews disclosed a potential mismatch between the needs of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) recipients who requested assistance with domestic violence and the services, particularly the domestic violence waiver, offered by the TANF system. Only a third of the TANF applicants who were referred to family violence specialists requested a waiver of the TANF participation requirements, but all of them reported other barriers to employ…
When the Floods of Compassion Are not Enough
Hurricane Katrina exposed serious deficiencies in the social support safety net at the federal, state, and local level. This article explores the impacts of the disrupted safety net through participant observation and interviews with service providers and evacuees resettled in one southern city. Their stories illustrate how vulnerable low‐income groups struggle to cope with disaster within the context of inadequate larger support systems and the …
Community-Based Research in Policy Planning
Community-based research is considered a community change model in that it engages local community members in the definition of their problems and the formulation of broad-based solutions. Although community-based research has been used on a local level, less attention has been given to the use of community-based research in policy planning at the state level. This paper illustrates the joint efforts of state policy analysts, university researche…
A Collaborative Framework for Envisioning the Future of Social Work Research and Education
Social workers practice in an environment where the inequities that face our clients continue to grow and increase. Disparities by race, income, and other social dimensions continue to expand and challenge our society and the core values of our profession. It is imperative that social work research supports good policy and practice approaches to eliminate health, income, and education disparities so that all members of society have the same socia…
You Were Talkin' Though, Oh Yes, You Was
The Policy Nexus
In this paper, we analyze a unique mixed methods data set based on survey responses (n=108) and intensive interviews (n=18) with panhandlers in Austin, Texas. We examine the way in which failures of primary and secondary social capital interact to create the conditions of extreme poverty and homelessness that lead to panhandling. We find that a large majority of these individuals are working-age adults who lack access to social policy supports th…
Economic Survival Strategies and Food Insecurity
This article reports on a study of 67 Hurricane Katrina survivors who were evacuated to one Texas community. The authors examine the economic survival strategies employed by Katrina evacuees to feed their families during the approximately one week time frame beginning the day before the storm and ending when they were ultimately evacuated from New Orleans. An analysis of their strategies and actions provides insight both into the nature of househ…
The Importance of Selection Factors
Longitudinal ethnographic data of 49 families in the San Antonio site of the Three City Study illustrate the ways in which families that remain on welfare differ in important ways from families in which the mother is employed. Families that remain on welfare experience substantial health and emotional problems; have limited access to informal supports; and are headed by mothers with little education or prior work experience. These ethnographic fi…
The Ties That Bind
No abstract available for this article
You Were Talkin' Though, Oh Yes, You Was
Children's disputes in three speach communities
Despite considerable recent research on child discourse, there has been little controlled cross-cultural work. Numerous valuable studies of children's speech events in specific societies are available, but comparisons are largely anecdotal and informal. Similarly, several analytical schemata have been developed to deal with particular types of discourse in particular societies (see, for example, Sinclair & Coulthard 1975; Sacks, Schegloff & Jeffe…
Male Participation in Home Life
There is growing pressure on men to increase their participation in home life. As more and more women, particularly the mothers of young children, enter the labor force, there appears to be greater need for men to contribute to housework and childcare. This paper draws on intensive interview material with 25 Boston-area families to describe and explain the ambivalence of male response to this pressure. Because of men's different social support ne…
The Ties That Bind
No abstract available for this article
Families without Villains
The Ties that Bind
More than Bread
Making Ends Meet
Work, Welfare, and Single Mothers' Economic Survival Strategies
Past efforts to conceptualize the effects of welfare on work have failed to consider the full range of incentives and disincentives that low-skill single mothers perceive and act upon when making the choice between welfare and work. They also have neglected the fundamental economic reality of these mothers' lives-neither welfare nor low-wage work gives single mothers enough income to meet their families'expenses. In-depth interviews with 379 low-…
But for the Grace of Birth, There Go I
Community-Based Research in Policy Planning
Community-based research is considered a community change model in that it engages local community members in the definition of their problems and the formulation of broad-based solutions. Although community-based research has been used on a local level, less attention has been given to the use of community-based research in policy planning at the state level. This paper illustrates the joint efforts of state policy analysts, university researche…
Toward an End to Hunger in America
With the Best of Intentions
Interviews disclosed a potential mismatch between the needs of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) recipients who requested assistance with domestic violence and the services, particularly the domestic violence waiver, offered by the TANF system. Only a third of the TANF applicants who were referred to family violence specialists requested a waiver of the TANF participation requirements, but all of them reported other barriers to employ…
Parental Involvement during the Transition to High School
In this article, the authors conducted a study to discover what types of parent involvement are effective as students make the transition to high school.This study also aimed to elaborate on the role parents play in connecting their children to desirable peer networks during this transition.In-home interviews were conducted with 26 students as well as their parents before and after entering high school.The successfulness of the students’ transiti…
Gender, Families, and State
Feminism and the Family
Special Reviewers
Economic Roulette
Complementing previous literature on welfare reform and the character of jobs in the low-wage labour market, we illustrate the lack of regularity and security that mark the jobs held by many low-income mothers. To do so, we present a typology of mothers' work patterns and illustrate their experiences through case examples. Our qualitative analysis of longitudinal pathways-to-work in three cities involved an examination of the experiences of 99 di…
Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis
The Importance of Selection Factors
Longitudinal ethnographic data of 49 families in the San Antonio site of the Three City Study illustrate the ways in which families that remain on welfare differ in important ways from families in which the mother is employed. Families that remain on welfare experience substantial health and emotional problems; have limited access to informal supports; and are headed by mothers with little education or prior work experience. These ethnographic fi…
Ordinary Poverty
Economic Survival Strategies and Food Insecurity
This article reports on a study of 67 Hurricane Katrina survivors who were evacuated to one Texas community. The authors examine the economic survival strategies employed by Katrina evacuees to feed their families during the approximately one week time frame beginning the day before the storm and ending when they were ultimately evacuated from New Orleans. An analysis of their strategies and actions provides insight both into the nature of househ…
When the Floods of Compassion Are not Enough
Hurricane Katrina exposed serious deficiencies in the social support safety net at the federal, state, and local level. This article explores the impacts of the disrupted safety net through participant observation and interviews with service providers and evacuees resettled in one southern city. Their stories illustrate how vulnerable low‐income groups struggle to cope with disaster within the context of inadequate larger support systems and the …
The State and Civil Society Response to Disaster
This article presents a case study of the reception of low-income Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Austin, Texas, to reveal the multiple barriers and problems faced by families and individuals dislodged by Katrina, as well as the difficulties faced by the service providers. The authors surveyed evacuees who had used the emergency shelter system and received housing assistance at least 10 weeks after the disaster. These survey data are supplemented w…
Case Management with Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Disaster case management is an important but under-researched aspect of disaster recovery. This study explored the perspectives of case managers and supervisors about the needs of Hurricane Katrina survivors. Telephone interviews with 168 case managers and supervisors in 32 states identified client motivation and availability of resources as key factors in successful cases. Conversely, lack of client motivation perceived or resources were key fac…
Sociology (15 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 obras) · Geography (8 obras) · Economic growth (7 obras) · Business (6 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras) · Disaster Management and Resilience (6 obras)