04521nam 2200685 450 991046425060332120200520144314.010.9783/9780812206258(CKB)2670000000618730(EBL)3442532(SSID)ssj0001502629(PQKBManifestationID)11952574(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001502629(PQKBWorkID)11455149(PQKB)11662329(OCoLC)910382596(MdBmJHUP)muse42135(DE-B1597)451268(DE-B1597)9780812206258(MiAaPQ)EBC3442532(Au-PeEL)EBL3442532(CaPaEBR)ebr11059036(CaONFJC)MIL789306(EXLCZ)99267000000061873020150613h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe workfare state public assistance politics from the new deal to the new democrats /Eva BertramPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :University of Pennsylvania Press,2015.©20151 online resource (335 p.)American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public LawIncludes index.0-8122-0625-8 0-8122-4707-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --Introduction --Chapter 1. Democratic Divisions on Work and Welfare --Chapter 2. Welfarists Confront Workfarists: The Family Assistance Plan --Chapter 3. Building Workfare: WIN II, SSI, and EITC --Chapter 4. The Political Economy of Work and Welfare --Chapter 5. The Conservative Assault and the Liberal Retreat --Chapter 6. The New South and the New Democrats --Chapter 7. Showdown and Settlement --Chapter 8. The New World of Workfare --Conclusion --Notes --Index --AcknowledgmentsIn the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression. When families in need sought help from the safety net, however, they found themselves trapped in a system that increasingly tied public assistance to private employment. In The Workfare State, Eva Bertram recounts the compelling history of the evolving social contract from the New Deal to the present to show how a need-based entitlement was replaced with a work-conditioned safety net, heightening the economic vulnerability of many poor families. The Workfare State challenges the conventional understanding of the development of modern public assistance policy. New Deal and Great Society Democrats expanded federal assistance from the 1930's to the 1960's, according to the standard account. After the 1980 election, the tide turned and Republicans ushered in a new conservative era in welfare politics. Bertram argues that the decisive political struggles took place in the 1960's and 1970's, when Southern Democrats in Congress sought to redefine the purposes of public assistance in ways that would preserve their region's political, economic, and racial order. She tells the story of how the South—the region with the nation's highest levels of poverty and inequality and least generous social welfare policies—won the fight to rewrite America's antipoverty policy in the decades between the Great Society and the 1996 welfare reform. Their successes provided the foundation for leaders in both parties to build the contemporary workfare state—just as deindustrialization and global economic competition made low-wage jobs less effective at providing income security and mobility.American governance.Welfare recipientsEmploymentUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWelfare recipientsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPublic welfarePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWelfare stateUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Welfare recipientsEmploymentHistoryWelfare recipientsHistoryPublic welfarePolitical aspectsHistoryWelfare stateHistory362.5/840973Bertram Eva1057558MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464250603321The workfare state2492960UNINA