San Antonio College Library

Offers insight on the impact of work requirements and other post-welfare changes on the lives of low-income and battered mothers through personal narratives and an analysis of earnings, welfare, and restraining order data; argues that current policies and practices trap women in poverty and abuse; and suggests a new way of calculating the costs of battering.

"The book is based on in-depth studies of social service programs in Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Dallas. By examining public-private partnerships between government offices and nonprofit organizations, Monsma seeks to understand how these partnerships affect the balance between government's efforts to deal with social problems and the rights of individual citizens to control their own lives." "Putting Faith in Partnerships answers many...

Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice - finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare...

"Work over Welfare presents the inside story of the legislation that ended "welfare as we know it" in America. As a key staffer on the House Ways an Means Committee, Ron Haskins was one of the principal architects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Here, he vividly recounts the political battles and policy debates that produced the most dramatic overhaul of welfare since its creation as part of the New Deal."--Jacket....

The Workfare State is a fascinating and essential new account of the rise of work as a condition for social assistance in the United States. Work became a requirement for social assistance, reinforcing the low-wage economy of the South and in turn the political bases of the lawmakers responsible for the change. That the same forces that shaped welfare legislation in the 1930s continued to do so decades later, and for similar economic and racial reasons,...

Explores the history of mandatory government work programmes for women welfare recipients in the USA from the 1930s to the 1990s.