Washington's New Poor Law: Welfare "Reform" and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present / Edition 1

by Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, Sheila D. Collins

Overview

The authors argue that the personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, popularly known as welfare "reform", offers neither work opportunity nor real reform. In repealing the entitlement to welfare and failing to create an entitlement to work - at the same time as it imposes strict, time-limited work requirements - Washington has, in effect, written a new Poor Law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780945257837
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	518
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.11(h) x 1.29(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William Loren Katz is the award-winning author of forty books. He is a World War II veteran.

Marc Crawford won journalism awards for Life Magazine, and served as an Ebony associate editor.

Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at New York University and the author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class, and Yo' Mama's Disfunctional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America.

Editorial Reviews

Interviews with the ``Lincolns''--members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War--on the occasion of their 50th anniversary return to Spain in 1986 provide a first-hand, first-rate work of nonfiction about the reasons people voluntarily go ``up in arms.'' At a time when the Depression had demoralized Americans, the civil war in Spain was considered ``the good fight,'' supported by members of the literary world--John Dos Passos, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Andre Malraux and George Orwell, among others; the troops included men and women (including one who fought for the right to drive an ambulance), whites and blacks (such as Commander Oliver Law, the first black man in history to lead an integrated army); most of them were untrained for any kind of battle. Katz and Crawford record terrible moments: the bombing of Guernica, the on-the-spot shooting of Lincolns by fascists and the imprisonment of many others. Rendering the information vividly, the narrative has an immediacy from its many eyewitness accounts; photographs on every page give this book further accessibility, ensuring that it never becomes simply a roster of facts. Ages 10-up. (June)

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