LEADER 04726nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910822363903321 005 20240418023114.0 010 $a1-283-89010-0 010 $a0-8122-0156-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201567 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064527 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000752524 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390139 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000752524 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10787812 035 $a(PQKB)11429113 035 $a(OCoLC)802048877 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18427 035 $a(DE-B1597)449008 035 $a(OCoLC)979968248 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201567 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441647 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576087 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420260 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441647 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064527 100 $a20090813d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe war on welfare $efamily, poverty, and politics in modern America /$fMarisa Chappell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $axi, 345 p. $cill 225 1 $aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2154-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcronyms --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. Reconstructing the Black Family: The Liberal Antipoverty Coalition in the 1960's --$tChapter 2. Legislating the Male-Breadwinner Family: The Family Assistance Plan --$tChapter 3. Building a New Majority: Welfare and Economic Justice in the 1970's --$tChapter 4. Debating the Family Wage: Welfare Reform in the Carter Administration --$tChapter 5. Relinquishing Responsibility for Poor Families: Reagan's Family Wage for the Wealthy --$tConclusion: Beyond the Family Wage --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhy did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan Revolution-and not necessarily by the Right. The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America traces what Bill Clinton famously called "the end of welfare as we know it" to the grassroots of the War on Poverty thirty years earlier. Marshaling a broad variety of sources, historian Marisa Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960's through the mid-1990's. In Chappell's telling, we experience the debate over welfare from multiple perspectives, including those of conservatives of several types, liberal antipoverty experts, national liberal organizations, labor, government officials, feminists of various persuasions, and poor women themselves. During the Johnson and Nixon administrations, deindustrialization, stagnating wages, and widening economic inequality pushed growing numbers of wives and mothers into the workforce. Yet labor unions, antipoverty activists, and moderate liberal groups fought to extend the fading promise of the family wage to poor African Americans families through massive federal investment in full employment and income support for male breadwinners. In doing so, however, these organizations condemned programs like Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) for supposedly discouraging marriage and breaking up families. Ironically their arguments paved the way for increasingly successful right-wing attacks on both "welfare" and the War on Poverty itself. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aAid to families with dependent children programs$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPoor women$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aPublic welfare$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWelfare recipients$xEmployment$zUnited States 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aAid to families with dependent children programs$xHistory 615 0$aPoor women$xGovernment policy 615 0$aPublic welfare$xHistory 615 0$aWelfare recipients$xEmployment 676 $a362.5/560973 700 $aChappell$b Marisa$01619069 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822363903321 996 $aThe war on welfare$93951140 997 $aUNINA