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View the Table of Contents. Read the Foreword. "The debate over welfare suffers from lack of historical
perspective. Now come Mink and Solinger to transform our
understanding with a clearly articulated, carefully organized, and
judiciously selected collection of key sources and illustrative
documents that illuminates the past and present of aid to poor
women and their children. Essential for classroom use, this book
also belongs on the desks of policy makers and activists
alike." "A stirringly dramatic narrative of welfare policy history.
Through the documents they select, Mink and Solinger bring to life
an immensely important human drama, and they do so in a way that
paves a path to a higher awareness of the deeply ingrained biases
of gender, race, and class that operate in welfare policy." Federal 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. In response, Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger compiled the first documentary history of welfare in America, from its origins through the present. Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics 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. 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. Welfare 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.
In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued to work against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area. A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.
Examining the ways in which the war on terror has been utilized to promote regressive social and economic agendas, an analysis of the current domestic policy reveals taxation and strategic political practices in prior wars while revealing how democracy has been compromised, veteran benefits have bee
Francis Fox Piven, a celebrated political thinker and activist, offers a concise introduction to her award-winning writings on imperialism, voting and poverty as it relates to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Piven offers a clear historical context to the current struggles around economic disparity, poverty and imperialism and relates them to the labour, civil rights and anti-imperialist struggles of the Depression era. Through examining the past, Piven presents the immense future possibilities of the Occupy Movement.
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it's thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a kind of trickle-down feminism. In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the mantle of feminist elect has descended on Hillary Clinton, as a thousand viral memes applaud her, and most mainstream feminist leaders, thinkers, and organizations endorse her. In this atmosphere, dissent seems tantamount to political betrayal. In False Choices, an all-star lineup of feminists contests this simplistic reading of the candidate. A detailed look at Hillary Clinton's track record on welfare, Wall Street, criminal justice, education, and war reveals that she has advanced laws and policies that have done real harm to the lives of women and children across the country and the globe. This well-researched collection of essays restores to feminism its revolutionary meaning, and outlines how it could transform the United States and its relation to the world. FAQ This is a book critical of Hillary Clinton. Is this book sexist? No. The contributors are radical and feminist, and almost all are women. But sometimes even men write things about Hillary that are not sexist. Aren't you helping the Republicans? Only if you think that even one person will read a book by a coven of leftwing feminists, find it convincing, and conclude that she should vote for one of those misogynistic reactionaries. Isn't this the wrong time? No. It's never too late or too soon to criticize someone who is about to become the most powerful individual on earth. If you think there's ever a time to withhold comment on such a person, you might be an authoritarian. Don't you care about feminism? Yes. That's why we did this.
A groundbreaking moment in the discourse of the labour movement and a classic text which revolutionised social history. Bernstein uncovers a period when industrial trade unionism, working-class power and socialism became a rallying cry for millions of workers; from fields, mills, mines and factories. This is the second instalment of Bernstein's critically acclaimed trilogy on the American labour movement which charts how the New Deal and labour unions preserved democracy and capitalism at a time when the survival of both was unclear.
"Pre-eminent among historians of labor history." --Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.
This report, the "Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2012," is designed to broadly inform our readers about some of the nation's most pressing social problems and to propose policy responses to those problems. Our audience includes social science scholars, teachers, and students; social activists; journalists, policymakers; elected officials; and of course the public-at-large. In short, this book is our attempt to inform and contribute to the ongoing public discourse about the nature and amelioration of some of our society's social problems. The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2012 contains eleven chapters, each contributed by outstanding scholars in their respective areas, and each chapter addresses a specific social problem facing the U.S. today. The authors are professional researchers, activists, and/or policy professionals, and the goal of the text is to present cutting-edge academic knowledge in jargon-free language, both in defining a social problem and in suggesting policy responses that would work. Each piece can certainly stand on its own, and will certainly be informative in itself, and each chapter follows a definite format, and that the content is divided into three major sections: the first defining the social problem, the second providing evidence available to outline the state of affairs, and third offering concrete suggestions for the types of policies that would be effective in ameliorating these problems. The chapters in this book cover a wide range of concrete issues facing our society today, including issues of immigration, health, inequality, appropriation of public funds, income security, racial diversity, and social welfare. These are certainly among the pressing issues and discussions that one encounters in the news media and other areas of social discourse. The book is designed with short chapters, so that readers can devour the content, and then take these arguments to their academic work (whether teaching or scholarship) and the ideas into action in the world, ultimately creating a more just society. In all, it contains 11 chapters written by SSSP members, covering a variety of social problems covering a variety of pressing social problems, as follows: -Elizabeth J. Clifford, Susan C. Pearce, and Reena Tandon: Challenges Facing Foreign-Born women. -Amitai Etzioni: Regulatory Capture and Campaign Reform. -Robert Grantham: Inner-City Social Problems: -Cedric Herring: Diversity in America. -Tamara G.J. Leech and Devon Hensel: Reproductive Health of Black Women. -Jason Smith, Preston Rhea, and Sascha Meinrath: Promoting Equality in the Digital Sphere. -Cecilia Menjivar: U.S. Immigration Reform. -Carolyn Cummings Perrucci and Robert Perrucci: Jobs for America. -Frances Fox Piven: Inequality and Social Welfare. -John N. Robinson III and Katie Kerstetter: Affordable Housing. -Chris Wellin and Brooke Hollister: Economic Security for Older Americans.
View the Table of Contents. aThabit emphasizes the central role of local institutions in
contributing to urban disinvestment and decline.a "Walter Thabit has written a highly personal and compelling piece of retrospective analysis."--"Journal of the American Planning Association" "Thabit's writing is lucid and heartfelt." "An excellent source of data and intelligence on the formation
of ghettos and the life and struggle within them." ""How East New York Became a Ghetto" describes the shift of East
New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely
black and Puerto Rican one, and shows how a series of racially
biased policies caused the deterioration of this once-flourishing
area." "An interesting and worthwhile read, especially for its descriptions."--"Supplement" "Walter Thabit's book works as a slice of urban sociology,
history, and political science. It should whet the appetites of
students and scholars to inquire into the "longue duree" of the
subject more extensively." aThe book powerfully coveys the forces behind the ghettoization
of one urban community and illustrates the difficulties of
community development.a "A comprehensive account of the decline of East New York in
Brooklyn into a typical urban slum and of the efforts since the
1960s to redevelop the neighborhood. Anyone interested in urban
social problems and improving the quality of life for urban poor
should read this astounding analysis of urban decay and
rebirth." "Thabit does a Herculean task of documenting the various factors
that led to the ghettoization of East New York." "Thabit is in a unique position to document the destruction of
the once working class Brooklyn neighborhood. . . Toward the book's
conclusion, Thabit sounds a faint note of hope to the emerging
community groups." "This thoughtful, important analysis is recommended for
academics, professionals, and a concerned public library
audience." "Walter Thabit eloquently tells the story of East New York, a
neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn, complementing his close
observation of events in the neighborhood with astute analyses of
the bearing of larger forces on this big city slum. Events in East
New York reveal in microcosm the turbulent national forces that
have determined the fate of inner city ghettos across the country
over the past 40 years." "The grim descriptions of civil neglect, community
disorganization and institutional racism make this a difficult
read, particularly when one realizes that this is the story that
can be told about thousands of other neighborhoods in scores of
citiies by hundreds of people. Perhaps if more planners like Thabit
had told their stories, we might not have found oruselves in this
predicament." In response to the riots of the mid-'60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York's dramatic decline and that continued towork against its successful revitalization. How East New York Became a Ghetto describes the shift of East New York from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to a largely black and Puerto Rican neighborhood and shows how the resulting racially biased policies caused the deterioration of this once flourishing area. A clear-sighted, unflinching look at one ghetto community, How East New York Became a Ghetto provides insights and observations on the histories and fates of ghettos throughout the United States.
View the Table of Contents. Read the Foreword. "The debate over welfare suffers from lack of historical
perspective. Now come Mink and Solinger to transform our
understanding with a clearly articulated, carefully organized, and
judiciously selected collection of key sources and illustrative
documents that illuminates the past and present of aid to poor
women and their children. Essential for classroom use, this book
also belongs on the desks of policy makers and activists
alike." "A stirringly dramatic narrative of welfare policy history.
Through the documents they select, Mink and Solinger bring to life
an immensely important human drama, and they do so in a way that
paves a path to a higher awareness of the deeply ingrained biases
of gender, race, and class that operate in welfare policy." Federal 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. In response, Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger compiled the first documentary history of welfare in America, from its origins through the present. Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics 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. 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. Welfare 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.
Americans take for granted that ours is the very model of a
democracy. At the core of this belief is the assumption that the
right to vote is firmly established. But in fact, the United States
is the only major democratic nation in which the less well-off, the
young, and minorities are substantially underrepresented in the
electorate.
A critical and democratic perspective on American politics, letters, and higher education. Drawing from public and personal experiences, the author invites readers to think about their own level of social consciousness. Topics include: capitalism and class inequality; and teaching and parenting.
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