Table of Contents

List of Documents Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: AFDC in the early years: 1930s and 1940s Chapter 2: New Debates about Welfare, Motherhood, and Work: 1950s and Early 1960s Chapter 3: Welfare Rights and Welfare Reform in the 1960s and 1970s Chapter 4: The End of Welfare as We Knew It: 1980s and 1990s Introduction to Documents Documents Bibliography Permissions Acknowledgments Index

About the Author

Premilla Nadasen is Visiting Associate Professor and Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at Brooklyn College. She is the author of Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (Routledge).


Jennifer Mittelstadt is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Penn State University. She is the author of From Welfare to Workfare: The Unintended Consequences of Liberal Reform, 1945-1965.


Marisa Chappell is Assistant Professor of History at Oregon State University. She is the author of The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America.

Reviews

"With wide ranging perspectives, nearly century-long coverage, and choice documents, this short but powerful collection shows why welfare remains one of the most contentious issues in public policy. Three cheers for Nadasen, Mittelstadt, and Chappell for this stimulating- and provocative - introduction that highlights the significance of race and gender in women's lives." --Eileen Boris, author or The New Women's Labor History "The story of contemporary welfare policy in the United States is complicated and deeply troubled by poisonous conflicts over race, class and gender. Here, however, we have a telling of the story that is admirably clear and concise, and enlivened by the inclusion of the documents that mark and illuminate the turning points in the story. This will be an excellent teaching resource." --Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America