{"product_id":"welfare-a-documentary-history-of-us-policy-and-politics-9780814756546","title":"Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eFederal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, and what the government should do about poverty were particularly bitter and misleading at the end of the twentieth century. These public discussions left most Americans with far more attitude than information about poverty, the poor, and poverty policy in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e In response, Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger compiled the first documentary history of welfare in America, from its origins through the present. \u003cb\u003eWelfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics\u003c\/b\u003e provides historical context for understanding recent policy developments, as it traces public opinion, recipients' experiences, and policy continuities and innovations over time. The documents collected range across more than 100 years, from government documents and proclamations of presidents throughout the 20th century, to accounts of activist and grass roots organizations, newspaper reports and editorials, political cartoons, posters and more.\u003cbr\u003e They enable readers to go straight to the source to find out how public figures racialized welfare in the minds of white Americans, to explore the origins of the claim that poor women have babies in order to collect welfare, and to trace how that notion has been perpetuated and contested. The documents also illustrate how policymakers in different eras have invoked and politicized the idea of dependency, as well as how ideas about women's dependency have followed changing characterizations of poor women as workers and as mothers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWelfare\u003c\/b\u003e provides a picture of the government's evolving ideas about poverty and provision, along side powerful examples of the voices too often eclipsed in the public square--welfare recipients and their advocates, speaking about mothering, poverty, and human rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gwendolyn Mink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.02h x 6.88w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814756546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2003 pg. 2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGwendolyn Mink (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGwendolyn Mink\u003c\/b\u003e is the author or editor of nine books about social justice issues in U.S. policy history and politics, including \u003ci\u003eThe Wages of Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eInequality in the Welfare State \u003c\/i\u003e(1995), which won the 1996 Victoria Schuck Book Award of the American Political Science Association, and \u003ci\u003eWelfare's End \u003c\/i\u003e(1998, 2002). Most recently (2018) she published \u003ci\u003eEnsuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective \u003c\/i\u003ewith co-author Felicia Kornbluh. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRickie Solinger (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRickie Solinger\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian, the editor of a book series on reproductive justice, and a curator who organizes exhibitions associated with the themes of her books. Her books include \u003ci\u003eWake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBeggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrances Fox Piven (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrances Fox Piven\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eWork, Welfare and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e. Her other award-winning books include \u003ci\u003eRegulating the Poor, Why Americans Don't Vote\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail \u003c\/i\u003e(all with Richard Cloward). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40671736103027,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":62.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1a979054-8ccb-4080-9b61-2cabd6966e49.jpg?v=1674055801","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/welfare-a-documentary-history-of-us-policy-and-politics-9780814756546","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}