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The War on Welfare : Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
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- Summary
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Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-...
Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.
Details
- Creator
- Marisa Chappell
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource : 16 illustrations
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780812201567, 0812201566
- OCLC
- ocn979968248
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960s -- Chapter 2. Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance Plan -- Chapter 3. Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970s -- Chapter 4. Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter Administration -- Chapter 5. Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the Wealthy -- Conclusion: Beyond the Family Wage -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments