Welfare in the United States
Premilla Nadasen, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Marisa Chappell
Inbunden, 2009
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In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress ""ended welfare as we know it"" and trumpeted ""workfare"" as a dramatic break from the past. But, in fact, workfare was not new. Jennifer Mittelstadt 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. Mittelstadt examines the dramatic reform of Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) from the 1940s through the 1960s, demonstrating that in this often misunderstood period, national policy makers did not overlook issues of poverty, race, and women's role in society. Liberals' public debates and disagreements over welfare, however, caused unintended consequences, she argues, including a shift toward conservatism. Rather than leaving ADC as an income support program for needy mothers, reformers recast it as a social services program aimed at ""rehabilitating"" women from ""dependence"" on welfare to ""independence,"" largely by encouraging them to work. Mittelstadt reconstructs the ideology, implementation, and consequences of rehabilitation, probing beneath its surface to reveal gendered and racialized assumptions about the welfare poor and broader societal concerns about poverty, race, family structure, and women's employment.
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- Utgivningsdatum2005-03-07
- Mått154 x 236 x 17 mm
- Vikt408 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieGender and American Culture
- Antal sidor288
- FörlagThe University of North Carolina Press
- ISBN9780807855874
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