The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats

The Workfare State: Public Assistance Politics from the New Deal to the New Democrats
ISBN-10
0812247078
ISBN-13
9780812247077
Category
Political Science
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
2015-07-17
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Author
Eva Bertram

Description

The Workfare State recounts the history of the evolving social contract for poor families from the New Deal to the present. Challenging conventional accounts, Eva Bertram argues that conservative Southern Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s led the way in developing the modern workfare state, well before Republican campaigns in the 1980s.

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