Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform 0801459087, 9780801459085

Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform 9780801459085

When the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act became law in 1996, the architects of welfare r

194 28 790KB Read more

Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform 9781442683266

Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period when three "third way&quo

106 55 10MB Read more

Administering welfare reform: International transformations in welfare governance 9781847421531

While reforms of welfare policies have been widely analysed, the reform of welfare administration has received far less

156 60 4MB Read more

Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London 9780813541020

With his dirty, tattered clothes and hollowed-out face, Oliver Twist is the enduring symbol of the young indigent spilli

144 40 10MB Read more

Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare 9781317431176

291 45 1MB Read more

Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin 9780691222479

"Good government" is commonly seen either as a formidable challenge, a distant dream, or an oxymoron, and yet

170 2 2MB Read more

The Poverty of Welfare Reform 9780300146127

Once again, America is getting tough on welfare. Democrats and Republicans at both the national and state levels seem to

107 99 8MB Read more

Children and their Families: Contact, Rights and Welfare 9781472562821, 9781841132535

This book is concerned with the regulation of family relationships,in particular the issue of openness and contact in th

204 52 2MB Read more

Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor 9781315698267, 9780765613004

This volume analyses poverty and welfare reform within a context of low-wage work and the contours of the labour market

182 19 6MB Read more

Women and Welfare Conditionality: Lived Experiences of Benefit Sanctions, Work and Welfare 9781447347767

Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways

152 88 8MB Read more