Pt. I. The politics and ideology of welfare reform. Welfare policy and American politics / Frances Fox Piven
Welfare racism and its consequences : the demise of AFDC and the return of the states' rights era / Ken Neubeck and Noel Cazenave
Not-so-rugged individualists : U.S. Americans' conflicting ideas about poverty / Claudia Strauss
Pt. II. Families, caregiving and wage work. What's wrong with welfare-to-work / Randy Albelda
"Some of us are excellent at babies" : paid work, mothering, and the construction of need in a welfare-to-work program / Stephanie Limoncelli
What do sex and reproduction have to do with welfare? / Wendy Chavkin, Diana Romero and Paul H. Wise
Pt. III. Work and wages. Welfare reform and the low-wage labor market / Jared Bernstein
Welfare reform and working poverty : job types, wage mobility and post-exit earnings of welfare recipients in North Carolina, 1995-1999 / Lisa Morris
The effect of welfare reform on the incomes and earnings of low-income families : evidence from the current population survey / Laura Connolly
Struggling to live and to learn : single mothers, welfare policy, and post-secondary education in Michigan / Peggy Kahn and Valerie Polakow
Pt. IV. Welfare reform as social control. Job training for welfare recipients : a hand up or a slap down? / Gordon Lafer
Opportunity and control : living welfare reform in Los Angeles County / John Horton and Linda L. Shaw
Talking across the welfare divide / Chariti Gent
Ties that bind : child support enforcement and welfare reform in Wisconsin / Renee Monson
Pt. V. The impact of welfare reform on family wellbeing. The impact of welfare restructuring on economic and family wellbeing / Joan Acker and Sandra Morgen
Making the transition to self-sufficiency in Oregon / John Tapogna and Tara Witt
From war on poverty to war on welfare : the impact of welfare reform on the lives of immigrant women / Doris Ng
Integrating meaningful health and welfare reforms / Karen Seccombe
The effects of welfare reform on the characteristics of food stamp population / Phil Gleason, Carole Trippe and Scott Cody
Pt. VI. The structure of welfare reform. Is welfare reform working in Arizona and Oregon? / Mary Ann Steger
Welfare reform strategies and community-based organizations : the impact on family wellbeing in an urban neighborhood / Michael Reisch and Ursula Bischoff
Pt. VII. Conclusion. Toward a new politics / Joan Acker, Sandra Morgen, Frances Fox Piven and Margaret Hallock.
