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From Good Works To A Good Job: An Exploration Of Poverty And Work In Appalachian Ohio

Leeman, Mark A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1194570212

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Communication Theory and Process (Communication).
This dissertation is a report of a nine month ethnographic research project designed to explore discourses of homeless workers, for-profit businesspeople, and nonprofit service providers as they partnered together to make employment accessible and successful for those without homes in Appalachian America. A program was implemented that sought to bring those without homes into dialogue with their bosses through the use of narrative and dialogue. It was hoped that this strategy and partnership would provide the ongoing support that those in acute poverty need to do their jobs well, and to have their employment empower them toward successfully addressing other problems and issues in their lives. Via a grounded theory approach, augmented by narrative and feminist research methods, emergent themes are investigated that include the strategic use and constraints of invisibility/visibility among homeless workers; competing motivations and rewards of work among workers and bosses; the “masculine/feminine” roles and voices of for-profit and non-profit partners; and the dialectic of dependence/independence among the working homeless of Appalachia.
Lynn Harter (Advisor)
288 p.
work; poverty; communication; Appalachia; narrative; dialogue

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  • Leeman, M. A. (2007). From Good Works To A Good Job: An Exploration Of Poverty And Work In Appalachian Ohio [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1194570212

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Leeman, Mark. From Good Works To A Good Job: An Exploration Of Poverty And Work In Appalachian Ohio. 2007. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1194570212.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Leeman, Mark. "From Good Works To A Good Job: An Exploration Of Poverty And Work In Appalachian Ohio." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1194570212

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