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The War on Welfare : Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and Culture in Modern America SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (358 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201567
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The War on WelfareDDC classification:
  • 362.5/560973
LOC classification:
  • HV91 -- .C4513 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- One: Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960s -- Two: Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance Plan -- Three: Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970s -- Four: Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter Administration -- Five: Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the Wealthy -- Conclusion: Beyond the Family Wage -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- One: Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960s -- Two: Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance Plan -- Three: Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970s -- Four: Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter Administration -- Five: Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the Wealthy -- Conclusion: Beyond the Family Wage -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.

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