Introduction -- The emergence of the work-first prescription -- Welfare reform and access to postsecondary education: national trends -- The implementation of welfare reform: consistency and change -- The workforce investment act: investment or disinvestment? -- The implementation of WIA: does...

The thirty-years war -- The puzzling politics of winner-take-all -- The winner-take-all economy -- How the winner-take-all economy was made -- A brief history of Democratic capitalism -- The rise of winner-take-all politics -- The unseen revolution of the 1970s -- The politics of organized...