Backlash against welfare mothers past and present - Reese, Ellen, 1969-; ebrary, Inc. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005)
Dreams deferred, broken families, and hardship : the impacts of welfare reform -- Attacking welfare, promoting work and marriage : continuity and change in welfare opposition -- The first welfare backlash (1945/1979) -- The 1950s welfare backlash and federal complicity -- Explaining the postwar rise of welfare opposition -- The Southern welfare backlash : Georgia and Kentucky -- The Northern and Western welfare backlashes : California and New York -- Setting the stage : the failures of liberal innovation -- The contemporary welfare backlash (1980/2004) -- The rise of the Republican right and new Democrats -- Business interests, conservative think tanks, and the assault on welfare -- The contemporary welfare backlash, 1980/2004 -- Rebuilding the welfare state : forging a new deal for working families.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Public welfare -- United States -- History; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States; Aid to families with dependent children programs; Single mothers -- Government policy -- United States; United States -- Social policy; Electronic books