The first edition of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy reinvented the standard social welfare policy text to speak to students in a vital new way. This second edition builds on its strengths, with a more accessible graphic design and a thorough update of the ways in which recent political and legislative changes have affected social welfare programs. The bookâs five-part policy model â which shows how ideology, politics, history, economics, and social movements interact both to create and to change the social welfare system â and its overarching progressive narrative are bolstered by lucid discussions of these current issues. Analyzing, for example, recent developments such as the shortfall in the funding of the private pension system and the failed campaign to privatize Social Security; the split in the AFL-CIO and the founding of the Change to Win coalition; the reauthorization of the 1996 Temporary Assistance to Needy Families act; the campaign against Wal-Mart as the embodiment of proliferating low-wage work; and examination of the âNo Child Left Behindâ legislation, the authors show students how profoundly policy influences social work practice. The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy 2/e captures the fluidity and change inherent in social policy like no other textbook. Its approach remains the most invigorating, forward-thinking one available.

The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Blau, Joel

Abramovitz, Mimi

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Regulating the Lives of Women

Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles.   The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies – as well as today’s researchers and activists.

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Routledge

Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into welfare state rules and regulations define women as "deserving" or "undeserving" of aid depending on their race, class, gender, and marital status. Based on considerable new research, the preface to this third edition explains the rise of Neoliberal policies in the mid-1970s, the strategies deployed since then to dismantle the welfare state, and the impact of this sea change on women and the welfare state after 1996. Published upon the twentieth anniversary of "welfare reform," Regulating the Lives of Women offers a timely reminder that public policy continues to punish poor women, especially single mothers-of-color for departing from prescribed wife and mother roles. The book will appeal to undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate students of social work, sociology, history, public policy, political science, and women, gender, and black studies – as well as today’s researchers and activists.

Named an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America "Abramovitz introduces the reader to cutting edge socioeconomic analysis. . . . It is not possible to come away from Under Attack, Fighting Back with a sense that welfare is a simplistic topic or that the human consequences of adjustments in the existing system are inconsequential."--Labor History "This lively and informative book deserves to be widely read. It provides an excellent history of AFDC and the activities of various women's groups who have campaigned hard over the years for improvements in services to the poor."--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "Extraordinarily lucid and useful . . . "--In These Times In this short, eye-opening book, Mimi Abramovitz describes the heartless assault on impoverished single mothers in the name of "ending welfare dependency." Outlining the history of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Abramovitz shows how the manipulation of gender, race, and class have made welfare vulnerable to attack. This new edition brings a well-received work completely up to date with analysis of recent developments in welfare "reform" and activism.

Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (Cornerstone Books)

Monthly Review+press

Women's Studies

South End Pr

This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.

This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Revised Edition)

South End Press

Regulating the Lives of Women, Revised Edition: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

History

Americas

Taxes Are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate

Taxes determine the quality of our lives; they are responsible for the health of our environment, the safety of the roads we drive on, the condition of our public services, and the security of our homes and communities. For every woman who pays taxes and uses public services, and every man who cares about an effective and fair tax system, Taxes Are a Woman’s Issue dares to expose not only how tax policies shape the size of our bank accounts but also sculpt our government and the nation’s identity. Whether you are rich, poor, a corporation or an individual, taxes provide the resources we need to sustain the nation’s civil, social, and economic life, and help support the basic welfare of all individuals and families. They also mirror the fundamental inequities that people of different races, classes, and gender experience when they try to access the opportunities that taxes provide. So when probed by the lens of women’s diverse experiences, tax policy narrates some of the ruthless realities of our economy and our society. Authors Mimi Abramovitz and Sandra Morgen, writing for the National Council for Research on Women, convincingly dispel myths about the current welfare system and expose how the IRS-supported tax system was created in, and caters to, a time before women entered the work force. By honestly discussing the many ways the current tax system disadvantages women, Taxes Are a Woman’s Issue courageously teaches, as Linda Basch, the President of the Council, states, about positive changes that will improve the lives of all women and therefore their families, their communities, and the nation as a whole.”

Business & Money

Morgen, Sandra

Economics

The Feminist Press at CUNY

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The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Regulating the Lives of Women

Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States (Cornerstone Books)

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Revised Edition)

Regulating the Lives of Women, Revised Edition: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present

Taxes Are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate

Taxes Are a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate