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Page 134
... social worker didn't want to break up this family . " No , I don't think so , " I said . " She knows you take good care of them . " I told her she was admirable for her unique toughness , the quality that brought her back to claim her ...
... social worker didn't want to break up this family . " No , I don't think so , " I said . " She knows you take good care of them . " I told her she was admirable for her unique toughness , the quality that brought her back to claim her ...
Page 145
... social circles . And yet if we do , we are a bunch of old hens getting together . " Relegation to the group hits widows particularly hard . Helena Lopata relates this incident involving a newly widowed woman invited to attend a banquet ...
... social circles . And yet if we do , we are a bunch of old hens getting together . " Relegation to the group hits widows particularly hard . Helena Lopata relates this incident involving a newly widowed woman invited to attend a banquet ...
Page 201
... social absurdities more clearly . " Everybody's hipped up about being taxpayers , one welfare mother observed . " I ... social structures are so weighted against their performing with full competence in their jobs that it is not ...
... social absurdities more clearly . " Everybody's hipped up about being taxpayers , one welfare mother observed . " I ... social structures are so weighted against their performing with full competence in their jobs that it is not ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Cardboard City | 15 |
Into the Tunnel | 29 |
Copyright | |
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