Marisa Chappell teaches history at Oregon State University.

• List of AcronymsIntroductionOne: Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960sTwo: Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance PlanThree: Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970sFour: Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter AdministrationFive: Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the WealthyConclusion: Beyond the Family WageNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010"Essential."-Choice"The War on Welfare is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the fate of AFDC from Nixon through Clinton. Chappell contributes to the conversation on welfare reform in two important ways: first, she expands the discussion to include business and conservatives and a wider variety of liberals, including both traditional women's organizations and feminists; and second, she interrogates the cultural assumptions about family, women's work, race, and the poor by drawing upon a broad array of journalistic sources. Our understanding of the end of the family wage will never be the same."-Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

Marisa Chappell teaches history at Oregon State University.

• List of AcronymsIntroductionOne: Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960sTwo: Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance PlanThree: Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970sFour: Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter AdministrationFive: Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the WealthyConclusion: Beyond the Family WageNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010"Essential."-Choice"The War on Welfare is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the fate of AFDC from Nixon through Clinton. Chappell contributes to the conversation on welfare reform in two important ways: first, she expands the discussion to include business and conservatives and a wider variety of liberals, including both traditional women's organizations and feminists; and second, she interrogates the cultural assumptions about family, women's work, race, and the poor by drawing upon a broad array of journalistic sources. Our understanding of the end of the family wage will never be the same."-Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara

Marisa Chappell teaches history at Oregon State University.

• List of AcronymsIntroductionOne: Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960sTwo: Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance PlanThree: Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970sFour: Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter AdministrationFive: Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the WealthyConclusion: Beyond the Family WageNotesIndexAcknowledgments

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010"Essential."-Choice"The War on Welfare is the most comprehensive analysis to date of the fate of AFDC from Nixon through Clinton. Chappell contributes to the conversation on welfare reform in two important ways: first, she expands the discussion to include business and conservatives and a wider variety of liberals, including both traditional women's organizations and feminists; and second, she interrogates the cultural assumptions about family, women's work, race, and the poor by drawing upon a broad array of journalistic sources. Our understanding of the end of the family wage will never be the same."-Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara