They say cut back, we say fight back! : welfare activism in an era of retrenchment /

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"In 1996, President Bill Clinton hailed the 'end of welfare as we know it' when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law effectively transformed the nation's welfare system from an entitlement to a work-based one, instituting new time limits on welf...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reese, Ellen, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2011]
Colección:Rose series in sociology.
Temas:
Public welfare > United States.
Public welfare > United States > Citizen participation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Public welfare
Public welfare > Citizen participation
Sozialpolitik
Reform
Sozialhilfeempfänger
Soziale Bewegung
Öffentliche Sozialleistungen.
Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik.
Sozialreform.
Soziale Bewegung.
USA.
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Welfare reform and its challengers
  • Policy implementation as policy making: the case of U.S. welfare reform
  • Challenging welfare racism: cross-racial coalitions to restore legal immigrants' benefits
  • Battling the welfare profiteers: campaigns against the welfare privatization
  • Confronting the workfare state: community and labor campaigns for workfare workers' rights
  • But who will watch the children? State and local campaigns to improve child care policies
  • Challenges and prospects for the welfare rights movement.

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