Michael B Katz

The Price of Citizenship

Redefining the American Welfare State

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Produktbeschreibung

This updated edition of Michael B. Katz's seminal work, "The Price of Citizenship," traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and into our own age. It argues that in the last decades America has been propelled toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Updated edition
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780812220186
• ISBN-10: 0812220188
• Artikelnr.: 24525259

Autorenporträt

Michael B. Katz

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Invention of Welfare
1. The American Welfare State
2. Poverty and Inequality in the New American City
3. The Family Support Act and the Illusion of Welfare Reform
4. Governors as Welfare Reformers
5. Urban Social Welfare in an Age of Austerity
6. The Independent Sector, the Market, and the State
7. The Private Welfare State and the End of Paternalism
8. Increased Risks for the Injured, Disabled, and Unemployed
9. New Models for Social Security
10. The Assimilation of Health Care to the Market
11. Fighting Poverty 1990s Style
12. The End of Welfare
13. Work, Democracy, and Citizenship
Postscript: The Post-9/11 American Welfare State
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index