Poverty and social welfare in the United States. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.
• Authors: Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, 1957-
• Contents: Preface -- Poverty and Social Welfare in the United States -- The Poverty Population and Poverty Generation: Sex, Race, and Labor Market Structure -- The Feminization of Poverty: Nature, Causes, and a Partial Cure -- Unmarried Women in a Patriarchal Society: Impoverishment and Access to Health Care Across the Life-Cycle -- Local Labor Market Structure and the Poverty Vulnerability of Black and White Women in Large Metropolitan Areas -- Industrial Structure, Relative Labor Power, and Poverty Rates -- Ideology, Social Research, and the Welfare System -- A Test of the New Structural Critique of the Welfare State -- Fighting Poverty by Reducing Dependency: The Dilemma of Policy Assumptions -- The Dynamics of Welfare Use: How Long and How Often? -- Health and Poverty in Single-Parent Families: The Consequences of Federal Policy Change1 -- Politics and Social Welfare Policy -- Ideology and Welfare Reform Under the Reagan Administration -- Poverty, Policy, and Politics: Implications of the Research Findings for Social Welfare Action
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.580973; Public welfare -- United States; Poor -- United States; United States -- Social policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000307870; 9781000235999; 9781000271935; 9780429302787
• Related ISBNs: 9780367284039
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