The workfare state
public assistance politics from the New Deal to the new Democrats
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Author
Publication
2015 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Pennsylvania
Language
English
Word Count
82,000 words, Guess
Page Count
328 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100812247078
- ISBN-139780812247077
- Library of Congress Control Number2015008539
- OCLC Control Number893455637
- Better World Books9780812247077
and 2 more
- Better World BooksP8-CRR-546
- Open LibraryOL27207272M
Classifications
- DDC362.5/840973
- LCCHV95 .B456 2015
- LCCHV95.B456 2015
Description
The Workfare State is a fascinating and essential new account of the rise of work as a condition for social assistance in the Unite States. Work became a requirement for social assistance, reinforcing the low-wage economy of the South and in turn the political bases of the lawmakers responsible for the change. That the same forces that shaped welfare legislation in the 1930s continued to do so decades later, and for similar economic and racial reasons, is disturbing. That welfare recipients were thrust into work just as deindustrialization and globalization undermined the low-wage sector is heartbreaking. A new must-read in the development of American social policy. Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Subjects
Series Statement
- American governance : politics, policy, and public law
- American governance
Other Editions
- The workfare state
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