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If I Had a Hammer: Retraining That Really Works |  | Author: Margaret Hillyard Little
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 5254140
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 182
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0774811188
Dewey Decimal Number: 331.425920971
EAN: 9780774811187
ASIN: 0774811188
Publication Date: April 30, 2005
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This is a book full of heroes: poor women - many of whom are single mothers, Aboriginal, or both - who have defied the odds to become apprenticing carpenters. To do so they have juggled childcare schedules, left abusive partners, kicked deadly drug habits, and have undergone intensive retraining. Over three years Margaret Hillyard Little interviewed thirty women who participated in the program along with their instructors. The program was guided by feminist principles and included an innovative co-op construction business. Little's rich and complex analysis illuminates the lives of women who struggle with poverty, sexism, and racism as they attempt to gain skills, qualifications, confidence, and self-esteem. Retraining scholarship has, for the most part, focused on working class men and women, with virtually no attention paid to low-income women. And welfare literature has, to some extent, accepted the limitations of neoliberal governments and focused on workfare and other welfare policies. Little talks boldly about retraining as an effective and important strategy for welfare reform. If I Had a Hammer fills a gap in the current literature on retraining and welfare policy and makes an important contribution to social policy that transcends its Canadian context. Little writes in an accessible manner that will engage the general public, as well as students and scholars of social work, politics, women's studies, native studies, labour studies, and economics.
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