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

"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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محفوظ في:
التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Reese, Ellen, 1969- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2011]
سلاسل:Rose series in sociology.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.