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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-256) and index
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