Welfare, the Working Poor, and Labor

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Sources and Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Working Poor and the Contours of Welfare Reform -- 1. Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers -- 2. The Mirage of Welfare Reform -- 3. The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century -- II. Workers and Workforce Issues -- 4. A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform -- 5. Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees -- 6. The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement -- 7. Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets -- III. Labor and the Struggles over Social Welfare and Work -- 8. Evaluating the Living-Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities -- 9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers -- 10. Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index.