The Politics of social policy in the United States / edited by Margaret Weir, Ann Shola Orloff, and Theda Skocpol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Project on the Federal Social Role (U.S.)

Weir, Margaret, 1952- editor.

Skocpol, Theda, editor.

Orloff, Ann Shola, editor.

Series:

Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Congresses.

Welfare state.

Public welfare--United States--Congresses.

Public welfare.

United States--Social policy--Congresses.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1945-1989--Congresses.

United States--Social conditions--1945---Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (484 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]

Summary:

This volume places the welfare debates of the 1980s in the context of past patterns of U.S. policy, such as the Social Security Act of 1935, the failure of efforts in the 1940s to extend national social benefits and economic planning, and the backlashes against "big government" that followed reforms of the 1960s and early 1970s. Historical analysis reveals that certain social policies have flourished in the United States: those that have appealed simultaneously to middle-class and lower-income people, while not involving direct bureaucratic interventions into local communities. The editors suggest how new family and employment policies, devised along these lines, might revitalize broad political coalitions and further basic national values. The contributors are Edwin Amenta, Robert Aponte, Mary Jo Bane, Kenneth Finegold, John Myles, Kathryn Neckerman, Gary Orfield, Ann Shola Orloff, Jill Quadagno, Theda Skocpol, Helene Slessarev, Beth Stevens, Margaret Weir, and William Julius Wilson.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION Understanding American Social Politics

I INSTITUTIONAL LIMITS AND PATTERNS OF POLICY

Introduction

1 The Political Origins of America's Belated Welfare State

2 Redefining the New Deal: World War II and the Development of Social Provision in the United States

3 Blurring the Boundaries: How the Federal Government Has Influenced Welfare Benefits in the Private Sector

4 The Federal Government and Unemployment: The Frustration of Policy Innovation from the New Deal to the Great Society

II TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN THE NEW DEAL SYSTEM

5 Agriculture and the Politics of U.S. Social Provision: Social Insurance and Food Stamps

6 From Old-Age Assistance to Supplemental Security Income: The Political Economy of Relief in the South, 1935-1972

7 Postwar Capitalism and the Extension of Social Security into a Retirement Wage

III SOCIAL POLICY, RACE, AND THE "POVERTY PROBLEM"

8 The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary Welfare Dilemmas

9 Race and the Liberal Agenda: The Loss of the Integrationist Dream, 1965-1974

10 Racial Tensions and Institutional Support: Social Programs during a Period of Retrenchment

11 Politics and Policies of the Feminization of Poverty

12 Family Structure, Black Unemployment, and American Social Policy

EPILOGUE The Future of Social Policy in the United States: Political Constraints and Possibilities

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Revised papers from the second and third of three conference held in Chicago throughout 1984-1985, and sponsored by the Project on the Federal Social Role.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691028415

0691028419

OCLC:

1312726500