Introduction -- The state of poverty : TANF recipients -- The response to poverty and inequality : the welfare state -- Demonizing the single-mother family : the path to welfare reform -- The welfare bureaucracy -- Work and the low-wage labor market : mothers and children -- Welfare reform and...

Narrating the shop -- A shop is not a home: dirt, ethnicity, and the sweatshop -- Surviving sites: sweatshops in the progressive era and beyond -- Newsreel of memory: the WPA sweatshop in the Great Depression -- The sweatshop returns: post-industrial art -- Spinning the shop -- Spinning the new...