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Publication details [#33786]

Korteweg, Anna C. 2003. Welfare reform and the subject of the working mother: “Get a job, a better job, then a career”. Theory and Society 32 (4) : 445–480.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | gender | job training

Place, Publisher

Kluwer

ISBN

0304-2421

Annotation

This paper argues that Job Club trainers for poor single mothers in the U.S. enforce a masculine worker-citizen subject via the deployment of three discursive strategies.