Poverty And Social Welfare In The United States

Donald Tomaskovia-Devey

Preface -- Poverty and Social Welfare in the United States -- The Poverty Population and Poverty Generation: Sex, Race, and Labor Market Structure -- The Feminization of Poverty: Nature, Causes, and a Partial Cure -- Unmarried Women in a Patriarchal Society: Impoverishment and Access to Health Care Across the Life-Cycle -- Local Labor Market Structure and the Poverty Vulnerability of Black and White Women in Large Metropolitan Areas -- Industrial Structure, Relative Labor Power, and Poverty Rates -- Ideology, Social Research, and the Welfare System -- A Test of the New Structural Critique of the Welfare State -- Fighting Poverty by Reducing Dependency: The Dilemma of Policy Assumptions -- The Dynamics of Welfare Use: How Long and How Often? -- Health and Poverty in Single-Parent Families: The Consequences of Federal Policy Change1 -- Politics and Social Welfare Policy -- Ideology and Welfare Reform Under the Reagan Administration -- Poverty, Policy, and Politics: Implications of the Research Findings for Social Welfare Action