Reforming welfare, redefining poverty
By: special editors of this volume: Randy Albelda, Ann Withorn
Contributors: Albelda, Randy Pearl; Withorn, Ann, 1947-; American Academy of Political and Social Science
Series: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -- v. 577 (Sept. 2001)
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States; Aid to families with dependent children programs -- United States; Welfare recipients -- United States; Poverty -- United States; United States -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Who deserves Help? Who must provide? / Linda Gordon; value: Globalization, American politics, and welfare policy / Frances Fox Piven; value: Welfare reform, family hardship, and women of color / Linda Burnham; value: Success stories : welfare reform, policy discourse, and the politics of research / Sanford F. Schram and Joe Soss; value: Fallacies of welfare-to-work policies / Randy Albelda; value: Violating women : rights abuses in the welfare police state / Gwendolyn Mink; value: Welfare reform and neighborhoods : race and civic participation / James Jennings; value: Friends or foes? Nonprofits and the puzzle of welfare reform / Ann Withorn; value: Learning from the history of poor and working-class women's activism / Mimi Abramovitz; value: Closing the care gap that welfare reform left behind / Lucie E. White; value: A view from the bottom : poor people and their allies respond to welfare reform / Willie Baptist and Mary Bricker-Jenkins