Backlash against welfare mothers [electronic resource] : past and present / Ellen Reese
- Author
- Reese, Ellen, 1969-
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 355 p. : map ; 23 cm.
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- 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.
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- ISBN
- 0520244613 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520244621 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references p. (271-330) and index.
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