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Author Reese, Ellen, 1969- author.

Title Backlash against welfare mothers : past and present / Ellen Reese
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 355 pages)
Contents Dreams deferred, broken families, and hardship : the impacts of welfare reform -- Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition -- The first welfare backlash (1945/1979) -- The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity -- Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition -- The Southern welfare backlash : Georgia and Kentucky -- The Northern and Western welfare backlashes : California and New York -- Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation -- The contemporary welfare backlash (1980/2004) -- The rise of the Republican right and new Democrats -- Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare -- The contemporary welfare backlash, 1980/2004 -- Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families
Summary Ellen Reese considers the politics of welfare in the U.S. from the 1940s to the present, offering a historical perspective on the current debates over 'welfare mothers' & showing how racism has played a large part in the formulation of popular conceptions regarding welfare
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT USA Government gnd
Subject Public welfare -- United States -- History
Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States.
Aid to families with dependent children programs.
Single mothers -- Government policy -- United States
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Aid to families with dependent children programs
Public welfare
Single mothers -- Government policy
Social policy
Welfare recipients -- Employment
Alleinerziehende Mutter
Familienhilfe
Sozialhilfe
Sozialpolitik
Soziale Wohlfahrt
Eenoudergezinnen.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Welzijnszorg.
SUBJECT United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004019546
ISBN 9780520938717
0520938712
159875520X
9781598755206
1282771841
9781282771840
9786612771842
6612771844