abstract: 'The Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity and Reconciliation Act of

  1996, better known as Welfare Reform, implemented, in addition to many

  other features, a 60-month lifetime limit for welfare receipt. Research

  to date primarily documents individual-level barriers, characteristics,

  and outcomes of those who time out. Very little scholarly work considers

  experiences of mothering or carework after timing out. In this chapter,

  I ask, what kinds of carework strategies are used by women who have met

  their lifetime limits to welfare? What do the ways mothers talk about

  these strategies tell us about the discursive forces they are resisting

  and/or engaging? Using in-depth interviews at two points in time with

  women who have timed out of welfare (n = 32 and 23), this analysis shows

  how mothers'' strategies and the ways they discuss them reveal covert

  material and symbolic resistance to key discourses - negative

  assumptions about welfare mothers and a culture of work enforcement -

  and the conditions shaping their lives (Hollander \& Einwohner, 2004).

  Mothers use carework strategies very similar to those identified in many

  other studies (e.g., London, Scott, Edin, \& Hunter, 2004; Morgen,

  Acker, \& Weigt, 2010; Scott, Edin, London, \& Mazelis, 2001), but they

  provide us with an understanding of carework in a new context. The three

  groups of strategies explored here - structuring employment and

  non-employment, protecting children, and securing resources - reveal

  raced, classed, and gendered labor in which women engage to care for

  children in circumstances marked by limited employment opportunities and

  limited state support. The policy implications of mothers'' strategies

  are also discussed.'
affiliation: 'Weigt, J (Corresponding Author), Calif State Univ, Sociol, San Marcos,
  CA 92096 USA.

  Weigt, Jill, Calif State Univ, Sociol, San Marcos, CA 92096 USA.'
author: Weigt, Jill
author_list:
- family: Weigt
  given: Jill
booktitle: MARGINALIZED MOTHERS, MOTHERING FROM THE MARGINS
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/S1529-212620180000025012
editor: Taylor, T and Bloch, K
files: []
isbn: 978-1-78756-399-5; 978-1-78756-400-8
issn: 1529-2126
keywords: Welfare; carework; unpaid labor; TANF; mothering; time limits
keywords-plus: WORK; EMPLOYMENT; REFORM; LIMITS; POOR; JOB
language: English
number-of-cited-references: '47'
pages: 195-212
papis_id: 8eebc733efad0df97f8a48f993927d97
ref: Weigt2018careworkstrategies
series: Advances in Gender Research
times-cited: '3'
title: CAREWORK STRATEGIES AND EVERYDAY RESISTANCE AMONG MOTHERS WHO HAVE TIMED-OUT
  OF WELFARE
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000661646100014
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '1'
volume: '25'
web-of-science-categories: Family Studies; Social Issues; Women's Studies
year: '2018'