Theories on the eradication of poverty abound. Self-help, self-reliance and self-sufficiency are touted as solutions, and are indeed critical to an economically stable life. Yet, for economically disadvantaged women (America’s poorest citizens), self-help is not as simple as grabbing sturdy boot straps or climbing elusive ladders. Creative ideas for self-sufficiency do not flower and flourish in environments that are void of resources. This book, first published in 1995, examines the questions raised around the concept of self-help by introducing microenterprise and exploring its relevance to poor women.
1. Welfare and Entrepreneurship: The Critical Intersection of Gender
Class Economics and Policy
2. Women, Microenterprise and Economic
Empowerment: A Global Perspective
3. A Look at a Microenterprise Project:
Business Owners Start-Up Services
4. The Select Committee on Hunger:
Historical, Political and Ethnographic Contexts
5. The Select Committee on
Hunger: Legislative Activities elated to Microenterprise
6. Radical Political
Economy: Analysis of Major Concepts
Cheryl Rodriguez
