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Backlash against welfare mothers : past and present / Ellen Reese.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: xvi, 355 pages : map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520244613
  • 9780520244610
  • 0520244621
  • 9780520244627
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.55680973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV91 .R4225 2005
Contents:
1. Deferred dreams, broken families, and hardship : the impact of welfare reform -- 2. Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition -- 3. The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity -- 4. Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition -- 5. Southern welfare backlashes : Georgia and Kentucky -- 6. Western and northern welfare backlashes : California and New York -- 7. Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation -- 8. The rise of the republican right and the new democrats -- 9. Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare -- 10. Congressional attacks on welfare, 1980-2004 -- 11. Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families -- App. 1. States that restricted eligibility for ADC (1949-1960) -- App. 2. Variables and data sources used in quantitative analysis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-330) and index.

1. Deferred dreams, broken families, and hardship : the impact of welfare reform -- 2. Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition -- 3. The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity -- 4. Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition -- 5. Southern welfare backlashes : Georgia and Kentucky -- 6. Western and northern welfare backlashes : California and New York -- 7. Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation -- 8. The rise of the republican right and the new democrats -- 9. Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare -- 10. Congressional attacks on welfare, 1980-2004 -- 11. Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families -- App. 1. States that restricted eligibility for ADC (1949-1960) -- App. 2. Variables and data sources used in quantitative analysis.

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