Backlash against welfare mothers : past and present / Ellen Reese

Author:: Reese, Ellen, 1969-
Published:: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]
Copyright Date:: ©2005
Physical Description:: xvi, 355 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm

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Contents:

Ddeferred dreams, broken families, and hardship: the impact 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 -- Southern welfare backlashes: Georgia and Kentucky -- Western and Northern 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 -- Congressional attacks on welfare, 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 (pages 271-330) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Delaware copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20056.

Endowment Note:

Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)

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