Contents
Preface
1. Interpretive Research for Public Policy
Part 1 Neighborhood: Family and Community as Supports
2. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Labyrinth of Working and Parenting in a Poor Community
3. Communal Isolation: Narrowing the Pathways to Goal Attainment and Work
4. Negotiating Adolescence in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood
Part 2 Employment: From Removing Barriers to Coping with Obstacles
5. Dreamkeeping in the Inner City: Diminishing the Divide Between Aspirations and Expectations
6. On the Outside Looking In: Low-Income Black Men’s Conceptions of Work Opportunity and the Good Job
7. Black Male Employment and Self-Su.ciency
Part 3 Parenting: From Enforcing Responsibility to Enabling Care
8. Mother, Worker, Welfare Recipient: Welfare Reform and the Multiple Roles of Low-Income Women
9. Work Preparation and Labor Market Experiences Among Urban, Poor, Nonresident Fathers
10. Social Contexts in the Making of Public Policy
Contributors
Index