The Promise of Welfare Reform: Political Rhetoric and the Reality of Poverty in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780789029218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 352 str.

Keith M. Kilty; Elizabeth A. Segal

Opis

Presents articles from 23 community practitioners and researchers who challenge the 'reform' that has turned public aid from a right to a privilege. This book analyses the consequences of legislative changes made to the public assistance program formerly known as Aid to Families with Dependant Children (AFDC).

Recenzje

"...provide[s] an eclectic collection of chapters that address many aspects of the new welfare-to-work program and examines the wider political, economic and cultural context in which these changes evolved." -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Vol. 36 no. 3, 2008

Spis treści

• About the Editors
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword (Frances Fox Piven)
  
• Introduction
  
• PART I: THE CONTEXT OF WELFARE REFORM
  
• Chapter 1. Looking Up the Slippery Slope: Lessons from a Lifetime of Trying to Figure Out and Fight Poverty (Ann Withorn)
  
• Learning Begins at Home
  
• Political Lessons
  
• Welfare and Welfare Rights: Remembering What We Have Lost and Learned
  
• Lessons Learned
  
• A Final Personal Lesson: Why It All Still Matters
  
• Chapter 2. Neither Accidental, Nor Simply Mean-Spirited: The Context for Welfare Reform (Mimi Abramovitz)
  
• Background: The Rise of the Welfare State
  
• Dismantling the Welfare State
  
• Welfare Reform
  
• The Race Card
  
• Fighting Back
  
• Chapter 3. Welfare Reform: Forward to the Past (Alfred L. Joseph Jr.)
  
• Introduction
  
• Welfare “Reform” and Beyond
  
• History of Hostility to Assistance
  
• The Struggle Continues: Fighting Racism Is Crucial
  
• Chapter 4. Welfare Reform in Historical Perspective (Joel Blau)
  
• From Agricultural to Industrial
  
• From Competitive Capitalism to Monopoly Capitalism
  
• Chapter 5. Lessons from Vermont (Margaret K. Nelson)
  
• The Disappearance of Grassroots Resistance
  
• Modest Social Change
  
• A More Active Engagement
  
• Chapter 6. Welfare Reform and the Transformation of the U.S. Welfare State (Michael Reisch)
  
• Introduction: The Roots of Contemporary Welfare Reform
  
• American “Exceptionalism”
  
• Race and Welfare Reform
  
• Antiwelfare Ideology
  
• The Impact of Welfare Reform
  
• The U.S. Workfare Regime
  
• Welfare Reform and Economic Globalization
  
• Welfare State Transformation and the Nature of Social Work
  
• Conclusion: The Workfare Regime and Power
  
• Chapter 7. Living Economic Restructuring at the Bottom: Welfare Restructuring and Low-Wage Work (Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker, Jill Weigt, and Lisa Gonzales)
  
• What Is a Good Job?: Measuring Poverty and Good Jobs/Bad Jobs
  
• Jobs, Poverty, and Welfare Reform in Oregon
  
• Jobs and Poverty in the Era of Globalization and the “Jobless Recovery”
  
• Policy Directions in the Context of Neoliberalism and Globalization
  
• PART II: POVERTY AND WELFARE REFORM
  
• Chapter 8. Welfare Reform and the American Dream (Laura R. Peck and Sarah Allen Gershon)
  
• What Is the American Dream?
  
• How Has Welfare Reform Influenced the American Dream?
  
• Discussion and Conclusion
  
• Chapter 9. Welfare Reform: What’s Poverty Got to Do With It? (Keith M. Kilty)
  
• Poverty: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
  
• When Poverty Becomes Too Visible
  
• Welfare Reform and Poverty
  
• Chapter 10. Microenterprise Development, Welfare Reform, and the Contradictions of New Privatization (Nancy C. Jurik)
  
• The Privatization of Collective Welfare
  
• Microenterprise Development Programs (MDPs)
  
• MDPs in Action: The Contradictions of New Privatization
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 11. Welfare Reform and Housing Retrenchment: What Happens When Two Policies Collide? (Jessica W. Pardee)
  
• Understanding Welfare Policy
  
• Understanding Housing Policy
  
• Discussion
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 12. Changing the Face of Homelessness: Welfare Reform’s Impact on Homeless Families (Bart W. Miles and Patrick J. Fowler)
  
• Introduction
  
• The Discursive Frame of Welfare Reform
  
• The Goals of Welfare Reform, and Its Impact on Homeless People
  
• Change in Demographics Among Homeless People
  
• Increase in the Number of Homeless Families
  
• Impact of Welfare Reform on Homeless Families
  
• Conclusion
  
• Recommendations
  
• PART III: FAM

O autorze

Elizabeth Segal