Social Services & Welfare
- America Unequal
- Sheldon H. Danziger
- Peter Gottschalk
- There is nothing about a market economy, Danziger and Gottschalk argue, that ensures that a rising standard of living will reduce inequality. They challenge the view, emphasized in the Republicans' "Contract with America," that restraining government social spending and cutting welfare should be our top domestic priorities. Instead, they propose a set of policies that would reduce poverty by supplementing the earnings of low-wage workers and increasing the employment prospects of the jobless.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1997
- Chutes and Ladders
- Katherine S. Newman
- Now that the welfare system has been largely dismantled, the fate of America's poor depends on what happens to them in the low-wage labor market. In this timely volume, Katherine S. Newman explores whether the poorest families benefited from the tight labor markets and good economy in the late 1990s. More than a story of the shifting fortunes of the labor market, Chutes and Ladders asks probing questions about the motivations of low-wage workers, the dreams they have, and their understanding of the rules of the game.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Creating a National Home
- Patrick J. Kelly
- Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, disabled Civil War veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Drawing on political, cultural, welfare, and gender studies, Patrick Kelly illustrates that the creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.
- Hardcover 1997
- Dubious Conceptions
- Kristin Luker
- This powerful book takes us behind the stereotypes, the inflamed rhetoric, and the flip media sound bites to show us the complex reality and troubling truths of teenage mothers in America today.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- Social Reformers in Urban China
- Shirley S. Garrett
- In this volume Garrett presents the impressive early history of the Y.M.C.A. in China, an organization which, during the first quarter of the twentieth century, became that country's most prominent private agency of social planning. The author interviewed many ex-Y.M.C.A. China hands and combed a variety of archives to complete this inside account of the missionary origins of, and Chinese participation and leadership in, the Chinese Y.M.C.A.
- Hardcover 1970
- The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed
- Linda Cook
- Hardcover
- Total Cure
- Harold S. Luft
- Proposals to reform the health care system typically focus on either increasing private insurance or expanding government-sponsored plans. Guaranteeing that everyone is insured, however, does not create a system with the quality of care patients want, the flexibility clinicians need, and the internal dynamics to continually improve the value of health care. Luft presents a comprehensive new proposal, SecureChoice, which does all that while providing affordable health insurance for every American.
- Hardcover 2008