Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Hearings on Welfare Reform: H.R. 30, Fair Work Opportunities Act of 1987 and H.R. 1720, Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Long-range Public Investment
Author: Robert D. LeighningerPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036637
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Long-Range Public Investment: The Forgotten Legacy of the New Deal is augmented by fifty-eight photographs.
New Poverty Studies
Author: Judith G. GoodePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814731155
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Stock market euphoria and blind faith in the post cold war economy have driven the topic of poverty from popular and scholarly discussion in the United States. At the same time the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. The New Poverty Studies critically examines the new war against the poor that has accompanied the rise of the New Economy in the past two decades, and details the myriad ways poor people have struggled against it. The essays collected here explore how global, national, and local structures of power produce poverty and affect the material well-being, social relations and politicization of the poor. In updating the 1960s encounter between ethnography and U.S. poverty, The New Poverty Studies highlights the ways poverty is constructed across multiple scales and multiple axes of difference. Questioning the common wisdom that poverty persists because of the pathology, social isolation and welfare state "dependency" of the poor, the contributors to The New Poverty Studies point instead to economic restructuring and neoliberal policy "reforms" which have caused increased social inequality and economic polarization in the U.S. Contributors include: Georges Fouron, Donna Goldstein, Judith Goode, Susan B. Hyatt, Catherine Kingfisher, Peter Kwong, Vin Lyon-Callo, Jeff Maskovsky, Sandi Morgen, Leith Mullings, Frances Fox Piven, Matthew Rubin, Nina Glick Schiller, Carol Stack, Jill Weigt, Eve Weinbaum, Brett Williams, and Patricia Zavella. "These contributions provide a dynamic understanding of poverty and immiseration" —North American Dialogue, Vol. 4, No. 1, Nov. 2001
The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy
Author: Joel BlauPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195109689
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Introducing Social Welfare Policy 1. Introduction: Social Problems, Social Policy, and the Triggers of Social Change2. Definitions and Functions of Social Welfare Policy, Mimi AbramovitzPart II: The Policy Model 3. The Economy and Social Welfare4. The Politics of Social Welfare5. Ideological Perspectives and Conflicts, Mimi Abramovitz6. Social Movements and Social Changes, Mimi Abramovitz7. Social Welfare History in the United StatesPart III: Policy Analyses: Applying the Policy Model 8. Income Support: Programs and Policies9. Jobs and Job Training: Programs.
Poor Worker's Unions
Author: Vanessa TaitPublisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608465209
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Illuminates key connections between the social justice movements of the last fifty years and today's most innovative labor organizing.
Hearings on Welfare Reform
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Still Lifting, Still Climbing
Author: Kimberly SpringerPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814708609
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Still Lifting, Still Climbing is the first volume of its kind to document African American women's activism in the wake of the civil rights movement. Covering grassroots and national movements alike, contributors explore black women's mobilization around such areas as the black nationalist movements, the Million Man March, black feminism, anti-rape movements, mass incarceration, the U.S. Congress, welfare rights, health care, and labor organizing. Detailing the impact of post-1960s African American women's activism, they provide a much-needed update to the historical narrative. Ideal for course use, the volume includes original essays as well as primary source documents such as first-hand accounts of activism and statements of purpose. Each contributor carefully situates their topic within its historical framework, providing an accessible context for those unfamiliar with black women's history, and demonstrating that African American women's political agency does not emerge from a vacuum, but is part of a complex system of institutions, economics, and personal beliefs. This ambitious volume will be an invaluable resource on the state of contemporary African American women's activism.
An End to Welfare as We Know it
Author: Resources in Education
Author: The Workfare State
Author: Eva BertramPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
In the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression. When families in need sought help from the safety net, however, they found themselves trapped in a system that increasingly tied public assistance to private employment. In The Workfare State, Eva Bertram recounts the compelling history of the evolving social contract from the New Deal to the present to show how a need-based entitlement was replaced with a work-conditioned safety net, heightening the economic vulnerability of many poor families. The Workfare State challenges the conventional understanding of the development of modern public assistance policy. New Deal and Great Society Democrats expanded federal assistance from the 1930s to the 1960s, according to the standard account. After the 1980 election, the tide turned and Republicans ushered in a new conservative era in welfare politics. Bertram argues that the decisive political struggles took place in the 1960s and 1970s, when Southern Democrats in Congress sought to redefine the purposes of public assistance in ways that would preserve their region's political, economic, and racial order. She tells the story of how the South—the region with the nation's highest levels of poverty and inequality and least generous social welfare policies—won the fight to rewrite America's antipoverty policy in the decades between the Great Society and the 1996 welfare reform. Their successes provided the foundation for leaders in both parties to build the contemporary workfare state—just as deindustrialization and global economic competition made low-wage jobs less effective at providing income security and mobility.