Washington's New Poor Law - Welfare Reform and the Roads Not Taken, 1935 to the Present

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.

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By Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg and Sheila D. Collins

Summary

Argues that recent US 'welfare reform' condemns the poor to greater impoverishment and amounts to a new Poor Law.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Collins, Sheila D Collins, Sheila D. Collins, Gertrude Goldberg, Gertrude S. Goldberg, Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780945257837
• ISBN: 978-0-945257-83-7
• No. of pages: 518
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 231 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 880 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories