Backlash against welfare mothers : past and present /
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| Author / Creator: | Reese, Ellen, 1969- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. |
| Description: | xvi, 355 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5702391 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Welfare Opposition: Causes and Consequences
- Chapter 1. Dreams Deferred, Broken Families, and Hardship: The Impact of Welfare Reform
- Chapter 2. Attacking Welfare, Promoting Work and Marriage: Continuity and Change in Welfare Opposition
- Part 2. The First Welfare Backlash (1945-1979)
- Chapter 3. The 1950s Welfare Backlash and Federal Complicity
- Chapter 4. Explaining the Postwar Rise of Welfare Opposition
- Chapter 5. Southern Welfare Backlashes: Georgia and Kentucky
- Chapter 6. Western and Northern Welfare Backlashes: California and New York
- Chapter 7. Setting the Stage: The Failures of Liberal Innovation
- Part 3. The Contemporary Welfare Backlash (1980-2004)
- Chapter 8. The Rise of the Republican Right and the New Democrats
- Chapter 9. Business Interests, Conservative Think Tanks, and the Assault on Welfare
- Chapter 10. Congressional Attacks on Welfare
- Chapter 11. Rebuilding the Welfare State: Forging a New Deal for Working Families
- Appendix 1. States that Restricted ADC (1949-1960)
- Appendix 2. Variables and Data Sources Used in Quantitative Analysis
- Notes
- References
- Index
