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Married to the state : mothering on welfare : survival strategies of single mothers in a UK public housing estate (1994)
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Emptage, T. M. (1994). Married to the state : mothering on welfare : survival strategies of single mothers in a UK public housing estate. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4210565

This thesis provides an ethnographic account of the lives of single mothers subsisting on Department of Social Security (DSS) benefits in a large public housing estate where unemployment rates are very high and traditional nuclear families are the ex... Read More about Married to the state : mothering on welfare : survival strategies of single mothers in a UK public housing estate.