LEADER 04779nam 2200757 450 001 9910788278003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-2444-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206258 035 $a(CKB)2670000000618730 035 $a(EBL)3442532 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001502629 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11952574 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001502629 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11455149 035 $a(PQKB)11662329 035 $a(OCoLC)910382596 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42135 035 $a(DE-B1597)451268 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206258 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442532 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11059036 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL789306 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442532 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000618730 100 $a20150613h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe workfare state $epublic assistance politics from the new deal to the new democrats /$fEva Bertram 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8122-0625-8 311 $a0-8122-4707-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Democratic Divisions on Work and Welfare --$tChapter 2. Welfarists Confront Workfarists: The Family Assistance Plan --$tChapter 3. Building Workfare: WIN II, SSI, and EITC --$tChapter 4. The Political Economy of Work and Welfare --$tChapter 5. The Conservative Assault and the Liberal Retreat --$tChapter 6. The New South and the New Democrats --$tChapter 7. Showdown and Settlement --$tChapter 8. The New World of Workfare --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn the Great Recession of 2007-2009, the United States suffered the most sustained and extensive wave of job destruction since the Great Depression. When families in need sought help from the safety net, however, they found themselves trapped in a system that increasingly tied public assistance to private employment. In The Workfare State, Eva Bertram recounts the compelling history of the evolving social contract from the New Deal to the present to show how a need-based entitlement was replaced with a work-conditioned safety net, heightening the economic vulnerability of many poor families. The Workfare State challenges the conventional understanding of the development of modern public assistance policy. New Deal and Great Society Democrats expanded federal assistance from the 1930's to the 1960's, according to the standard account. After the 1980 election, the tide turned and Republicans ushered in a new conservative era in welfare politics. Bertram argues that the decisive political struggles took place in the 1960's and 1970's, when Southern Democrats in Congress sought to redefine the purposes of public assistance in ways that would preserve their region's political, economic, and racial order. She tells the story of how the South?the region with the nation's highest levels of poverty and inequality and least generous social welfare policies?won the fight to rewrite America's antipoverty policy in the decades between the Great Society and the 1996 welfare reform. Their successes provided the foundation for leaders in both parties to build the contemporary workfare state?just as deindustrialization and global economic competition made low-wage jobs less effective at providing income security and mobility. 410 0$aAmerican governance. 606 $aWelfare recipients$xEmployment$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWelfare recipients$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPublic welfare$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWelfare state$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xSocial policy$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aWelfare recipients$xEmployment$xHistory 615 0$aWelfare recipients$xHistory 615 0$aPublic welfare$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aWelfare state$xHistory 676 $a362.5/840973 700 $aBertram$b Eva$01466762 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788278003321 996 $aThe workfare state$93677377 997 $aUNINA