Welfare hot buttons : women, work, and social policy reform / Sylvia Bashevkin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bashevkin, Sylvia B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--United States.

Public welfare.

Single mothers--Government policy.

Single mothers.

United States.

Public welfare--Canada.

Canada.

Public welfare--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Single mothers--Government policy--United States.

Single mothers--Government policy--Canada.

Single mothers--Government policy--Great Britain.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

Canada--Social policy.

Great Britain--Social policy.

Physical Description:

viii, 188 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press ; Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Summary:

Welfare Hot Buttons provides one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy change in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Sylvia Bashevkin probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the period when three "Third Way" political executives were in office -- Bill Clinton, Jean Chretien, and Tony Blair. She argues that despite seemingly progressive campaign rhetoric, the realities of social assistance policy under all three leaders were in crucial respects more punitive and restrictive than those of their neoconservative predecessors in the 1980s.

Contents:

2 Conservative Legacies 19

3 Promises, Promises 44

4 'Post-Conservative' Developments 69

5 Charting the Consequences 101

6 The Rise of the Duty State 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-181) and index.

ISBN:

082295799X

080203716X

0802085172

OCLC:

50270706