When Welfare Disappears

The Case for Economic Human Rights

AvKenneth J. Neubeck

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

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This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. Through detailed research, award-winning author Kenneth J. Neubeck offers a unique comparison of other industrialized nation's welfare policies compared to ours, and presents a new argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: the case for respecting economic human rights.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-03-24
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:424 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415947794

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Kenneth J. Neubeck is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. The co-author of the award-winning Welfare Racism (Routledge, 2001), Professor Neubeck resides in Eugene, Oregon.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Combating Poverty, Respecting Economic Human Rights 2. U.S. Welfare Policy: From Supporting Motherhood to a War against the Poor 3. Building Character through Adversity: General Outcomes of Welfare Reform 4. Varieties of Little-Noticed Suffering: Deconstructing Welfare-Reliant Families 5. Combating Family Poverty: How Other Affluent Nations Are More Successful and Why This Is So 6. Establishing Respect for Economic Human Rights in the United States