Poverty and social welfare in the United States
By: edited by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.
Contributors: Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, 1957-
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States.; Poor -- United States.; United States -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Poverty and social welfare in the United States / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey; title: The feminization of poverty / Irwin Garfinkel and Sara McLanahan; title: Unmarried women in a patriarchal society / Teresa Arendell; title: Local labor market structure and the poverty vulnerability of Black and white women in large metropolitan areas / David J. Maume, Jr.; title: Industrial structure, relative labor power, and poverty rates / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey; title: A test of the new structural critique of the welfare state / Jimy M. Sanders; title: Fighting poverty by reducing dependency / Michael Morris; title: The dynamics of welfare use / Mark R. Rank; title: Health and poverty in single-parent families / Rosemary C. Sarri and Carol Crill Russell; title: Ideology and welfare reform under the Reagan administration / Susan Gotsch-Thomson; title: Poverty, policy, and politics / Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.