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  • Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Sources and Credits ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; I. Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform ; 1. Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers.
  • 2. The Mirage of Welfare Reform 3. The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century ; II. Workers and Workforce Issues ; 4. A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform ; 5. Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees.
  • 6. The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement 7. Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets ; III. Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work ; 8. Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities.
  • 9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers 10. Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights ; About the Editor and Contributors ; Index.