Title: The price of citizenship : redefining the American welfare state /
Authors: Katz, M. B.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Public welfare United States History; Welfare state.; United States Social policy.; United States Social policy.
Abstract: "In The Price of Citizenship, the culmination of twenty years of research and writing, the historian Michael B. Katz traces the evolution of the welfare state from Colonial relief programs to the War on Poverty to our own age, marked by "the end of welfare as we know it." He argues that in the last decades, three great forces - a ferocious war on dependence, which has singled out the most vulnerable; the devolution of authority within both government and the private sector; and the application of market models to social policy - have infiltrated and revised all aspects of the social contract even as they have redefined both Republican and Democratic policy and rhetoric.
Contents: The American welfare state -- Poverty and inequality in the new American city -- The Family Support Act and the illusion of welfare reform -- Governors as welfare reformers -- Urban social welfare in an age of austerity -- The independent sector, the market, and the state -- The private welfare state and the end of paternalism -- Increased risks for the injured, disabled, and unemployed -- New models for Social Security -- The assimilation of health care to the market -- Fighting poverty 1990s style -- The end of welfare.