A01=Margaret Little
Author_Margaret Little
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Product details
- ISBN 9780774811187
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2005
- Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book is about poor women, many of them single mothers, Aboriginal,or both, who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. Todo so they have juggled child-care schedules, left abusive partners,and kicked drug habits to participate in a unique intensive retrainingprogram. Through the voices of the women participants and theirinstructors, Margaret Little analyzes the program to reveal thestruggles and triumphs of low-income women. She demonstrates that thereis a desperate need for retraining programs that provide realopportunities for economic independence. She also argues that, in anera of workfare and time-limited welfare, such programs are aneffective strategy for welfare reform.
Margaret Hillyard Little is an anti-poverty activistwho teaches in Political Studies and Women’s Studies atQueen’s University.
