Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond

By Randy Albelda

2002 marks the fifth anniversary of federal welfare reform in the US, and politicians and human rights advocates are debating the re-authorisation of new requirements for poor women and families... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896086585
• ISBN13: 9780896086586
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: South End Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A very wide area of controversial issues

Collaboratively compiled and edited by Randy Albelda (Economics, University of Massachusetts) and Ann Withorn (Social Policy, University of Massachusetts), Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, And Beyond is a scholarly selection of impressive essays by a variety of learned authors on topics relating to American welfare policy. From the effects of globalization on the current system, to fallacies of welfare-to-work policies, to issues of the rights of women and people of color, Lost Ground covers a very wide area of controversial issues often conveniently ignored by today's too-eager politics. Lost Ground is a welcome and strongly recommended addition to academic reference collections and reading lists in the area of American social policy in general, and welfare reform in particular.

Another great book from AK Press

The downside of welfare reforn is well documented in this new anthology. Moreover, welfare issues are analyzed in the context of broad political shifts, including globalization, the end of the family wage, the sexual revolution, and rise of black liberation, feminism, and multiculturalism.