From welfare to workfare: the unintended consequences of liberal reform, 1945-1965
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Main Author: Mittelstadt, Jennifer (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2005
Series:Gender & American culture
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-256) and index
A new postwar paradigm for welfare : from comprehensive social welfare to welfare services -- Strengthening family life and encouraging independence : gender and the postwar rehabilitation of the poor -- Selling welfare : the gender and race politics of coalition and consensus -- A "New Spirit" in welfare : women and work in the Kennedy administration -- Doing enough for broken families : the liberal social agenda on welfare, women's rights, and poverty, 1962-1964
This book locates the roots of the 1996 welfare reform many decades in the past, arguing that women, work, and welfare were intertwined concerns of the liberal welfare state beginning just after World War II. It examines the reform of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) and reconstructs the ideology, implementation, and consequences of rehabilitation
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 267 p.)
ISBN:0807876437
9780807876435

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