Working at the Margins

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Working at the Margins is written by Frances Julia Riemer and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791490734 (ISBN 10) and 9780791490730 (ISBN 13).

Working at the Margins describes and analyzes the move, from welfare rolls to paid employment, of adults who were marginalized from the mainstream by race, ethnicity, language, and economic status. Frances Julia Riemer utilizes ethnographic data gathered over two years from four workplaces that employed thirty seven former welfare recipients. She examines how the private sector accommodates these workers and their differences and how the workers themselves negotiate the barriers they experience. The book illustrates how government policies and adult-education initiatives, designed ostensibly to create opportunities, often reify existing inequalities.