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Availability:In StockContributor:Gwendolyn MinkSeries:Cornell PaperbacksPublish date:2001-12-27Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801483936ISBN-10:080148393XUPC:9780801483936Book Category:Political Science, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Public Policy, United States, Poverty & HomelessnessBook Topic:Social Services & Welfare, 20th CenturySize:8.58 x 5.68 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC9VMTHJY9

With her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end welfare, Gwendolyn Mink levels a searing indictment of anti-welfare politicians'assault on poor mothers. She charges that the basic elements of the new welfare policy subordinate poor single mothers in a separate system of law. Mink points to the racial, class, and gender biases of both liberals and conservatives to explain the odd but sturdy consensus behind welfare reforms that force the poor single mother to relinquish basic rights and compel her to find economic security in work outside the home.

Mink explores how and why we should cure the unique inequality of poor single mothers by reorienting the emphasis of welfare policy away from regulating mothers to rewarding the work they do. Every mother is a working mother, the bumper sticker proclaims, but the work mothers do pays no wages. Mink argues that women's equality depends on economic support for caregivers'work.

Welfare's End challenges the ways in which policymakers define the problem they seek to cure. While legislators assume that something is wrong with poor single mothers, Mink insists that something is wrong with a system that invades their rights and negates their work. Showing how welfare reform harms women, Mink invites the design of policies to promote gender justice.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9780801483936ISBN-10:080148393XUPC:9780801483936Book Category:Political Science, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Public Policy, United States, Poverty & HomelessnessBook Topic:Social Services & Welfare, 20th CenturySize:8.58 x 5.68 x 0.55 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SC9VMTHJY9

Gwendolyn Mink is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 and The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917-1942, both from Cornell.


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Gwendolyn Mink

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