Based on field work in Michigan in 1989 and 1990, explores how street-level welfare workers and welfare recipients actively construct their world and its meanin

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What circumstances or behaviors turn poverty into a cycle that perpetuates across generations? The answer to this question carries especially important implicat

An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one

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