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The moral construction of poverty : welfare reform in America / Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld.
- Title
- The moral construction of poverty : welfare reform in America / Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld.
- Author
- Handler, Joel F.
- Publication
- Newbury Park : Sage Publications, c1991.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hasenfeld, Yeheskel
- Description
- vii, 269 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- When allocating resources, should a distinction be made between the deserving and undeserving poor? Do gender, class or race play a role in designing welfare programmes? Why are welfare policies so charged with moral and political controversy?Discussing these and other significant issues, Poverty an.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-255) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- What is Welfare Policy -- The historical Development of Welfare Policy: To the New Deal -- From the New Deal to the Present -- Welfare and Work: The Institutionalization of moral Ambiguity -- Welfare-Work programs: the New poorhouse? -- The Contemporary Reform "Consensus": Symbolic and structural Ambiguity Redux.
- ISBN
- 0803941978
- 0803941986 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^91006939^
- OCLC
- 23081937
- SCSB-9881466
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library