Welfare's End

Author: Gwendolyn Mink
ISBN: 9780801433474

With her analysis of the thirty-year campaign to reform and ultimately to end welfare, Gwendolyn Mink levels a seating 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 w

Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Social Science / Social Work

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