Working at the Margins: Moving off Welfare in America

"This ethnographic study gets beyond the facile slogans about the nature of poverty, work, and individual responsibility to provide genuine insight about the problems people face in trying to change their lives." Ruth Sidel

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Classes

• EDF 677 Educational Sociology
• EDF 703 Sociological Foundations of Education
• EDR 612 Ethnographic Research in Education
• EDR 726 Advanced Qualitative Data Analysis

Writing

• From Welfare to Working Poor: Prioritizing Practice in Research on Employment-Training Programs for the Poor
• Quick Attachments to the Workforce: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Transition from Welfare to Low-Wage Jobs
• All Aboard - Destination Unknown: A Sociological Discussion of Online Learning
• The Condition of Minority Access and Participation in Arizona: 2005

Director, Women's and Gender Studies