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Backlash against welfare mothers : past and present /

Ellen Reese considers the politics of welfare in the U.S. from the 1940s to the present, offering a historical perspective on the current debates over 'welfare mothers' & showing how racism has played a large part in the formulation of popular conceptions regarding welfare.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reese, Ellen, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dreams deferred, broken families, and hardship : the impacts of welfare reform
  • Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition
  • The first welfare backlash (1945/1979)
  • The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity
  • Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition
  • The Southern welfare backlash : Georgia and Kentucky
  • The Northern and Western welfare backlashes : California and New York
  • Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation
  • The contemporary welfare backlash (1980/2004)
  • The rise of the Republican right and new Democrats
  • Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare
  • The contemporary welfare backlash, 1980/2004
  • Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families.