What welfare reform says about the United States of America
Subtitle: values, government bureaucracy, and the expansion of the working poor
By: Lisa C. Welch ; with a foreword by Paget Henry.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780773446984
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States; United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The political economy of the mainstreaming project; title: Research methods; title: Welfare in social and historical context; title: The grand narrative as lived experience; title: Bureaucracy at work in welfare-to-work; title: The embeddedness of market rationality; title: Conditions of employment; title: Does low wage work pay?; title: Conclusions & theoretical implications.