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.
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.
Michael B. Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many books, including One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming (with Mark J. Stern) and In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America.
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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
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
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