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  title info:
    title: They say cut back, we say fight back!
    sub title: welfare activism in an era of retrenchment
  name:
    name part: Reese, Ellen
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In 1996, President Bill Clinton hailed the 'end of welfare as we know it' when he signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. The law effectively transformed the nation's welfare system from an entitlement to a work-based one, instituting new time limits on welfare payments and restrictions on public assistance for legal immigrants. In 'They Say Cutback, We Say Fight Back', Ellen Reese offers a timely review of welfare reform and its controversial design, now sorely tested in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The book also chronicles the largely untold story of a new grassroots coalition that opposed the law and continues to challenge and reshape its legacy. While most accounts of welfare policy highlight themes of race, class and gender, 'They Say Cutback' examines how welfare recipients and their allies contested welfare reform from the bottom-up. Using in-depth case studies of campaigns in Wisconsin and California, Reese argues that a crucial phase in policymaking unfolded after the bill's passage. As counties and states set out to redesign their welfare programs, activists scored significant victories by lobbying officials at different levels of American government through media outreach, protests and organizing. Such efforts tended to enjoy more success when based on broad coalitions that cut across race and class, drawing together a shifting alliance of immigrants, public sector unions, feminists and the poor. The book tracks the tensions and strategies of this unwieldy group brought together inadvertently by their opposition to four major aspects of welfare reform, immigrants' benefits, welfare-to-work policies, privatization of welfare agencies and child care services. Success in scoring reversals was uneven and subject to local demographic, political and institutional factors. In California, for example, workfare policies created a large and concentrated pool of new workers that public sector unions could organize in campaigns to change…
  table of contents: Welfare reform and its challengers -- Policy implementation as policy making: the case of U.S. welfare reform -- Challenging welfare racism: cross-racial coalitions to restore legal immigrants' benefits -- Battling the welfare profiteers: campaigns against the welfare privatization -- Confronting the workfare state: community and labor campaigns for workfare workers' rights -- But who will watch the children? State and local campaigns to improve child care policies -- Challenges and prospects for the welfare rights movement.
  note: Ellen Reese.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Public welfare
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Public welfare
    geographic: United States
    topic: Citizen participation
  classification: HV95 .R425 2011
  classification: 361.60973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Rose series in sociology
  identifier: 9780871547149 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0871547147 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9781610447485 (ebook)
  identifier: 1610447484 (ebook)
  identifier: 2011022409
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110526
    record change date: 20151202150240.0
    record identifier: in00002747398