I. Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform
1. Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers
Frances Fox Piven
3
(8)
2. The Mirage of Welfare Reform
Max B. Sawicky
11
(13)
3. The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century
Heather Boushey and Robert Cherry
24
(21)
II. Workers and Workforce Issues
4. A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform
Fran Bernstein and Cecilia Perry
45
(14)
5. Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees
Immanuel Ness and Roland Zullo
59
(17)
6. The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement
Helena Worthen
76
(14)
7. Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Chirag Mehta and Nik Theodore
90
(17)
III. Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work
8. Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities
David J. Olson and Erich Steinman
107
(25)
9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers
Louise Simmons
132
(14)
10. Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights
James Jennings
146
(15)
About the Editor and Contributors
161
(4)
Index
165
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