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10%OFFMarisa Chappell - The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America - 9780812221541 - V9780812221541
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The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America

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Description for The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America Paperback. 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. Series: Politics & Culture in Modern America. Num Pages: 360 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.

Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution—and not necessarily by the Right.

The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton famously called "the end of welfare as we know it" to the grassroots of the War on Poverty thirty years earlier. Marshaling a broad variety ... Read more

During the Johnson and Nixon administrations, deindustrialization, stagnating wages, and widening economic inequality pushed growing numbers of wives and mothers into the workforce. Yet labor unions, antipoverty activists, and moderate liberal groups fought to extend the fading promise of the family wage to poor African Americans families through massive federal investment in full employment and income support for male breadwinners. In doing so, however, these organizations condemned programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for supposedly discouraging marriage and breaking up families. Ironically their arguments paved the way for increasingly successful right-wing attacks on both "welfare" and the War on Poverty itself.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Politics & Culture in Modern America
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221541
SKU
V9780812221541
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About Marisa Chappell
Marisa Chappell teaches history at Oregon State University.

Reviews for The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
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, ... Read more

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