This article explores the subaltern work and family care practices of 300 low-wage women. Although US welfare reform enforced the labor market as the sole route for family support, many, often single-mother, families remain wage impoverished. Their work habits orbit around keeping children safe and defy market norms. Furthermore, in wage-poor America and beyond, this defiance is understood as morally legitimate, representing a hidden challenge to an economic ideology that subordinates humanity to the market.
From: Social Politics, Summer 2007 (pp. 258-280)
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