When welfare disappears : the case for economic human rights / Kenneth J. Neubeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neubeck, Kenneth J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Economic aspects--United States.

Public welfare.

Welfare recipients--United States--Economic conditions.

Welfare recipients.

Poverty--Government policy--United States.

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare, an accurate portrayal of welfare recipients and an understanding of the diverse characteristics of lone-mother-headed families affected by welfare reform. Through detailed research, award-winning author Kenneth J. Neubeck offers a unique comparison of other industrialized nation's welfare policies compared to ours, and presents a new argument for curtailing the end of welfare as we know it: the case for respecting economic human rights.

Contents:

Introduction : combating poverty, respecting economic human rights

U.S. welfare policy : from supporting motherhood to a war against the poor

Building character through adversity : general outcomes of welfare reform

Varieties of little-noticed suffering : deconstructing welfare-reliant families

Combating family poverty : how other affluent nations are more successful, and why this is so

Establishing respect for economic human rights in the United States.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-194) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-415-94780-4

0-203-95528-5

1-135-40311-2

1-135-40304-X

9780203955284

OCLC:

935261830