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...

The political economy of the mainstreaming project -- Research methods -- Welfare in social and historical context -- The grand narrative as lived experience -- Bureaucracy at work in welfare-to-work -- The embeddedness of market rationality -- Conditions of employment -- Does low wage work pay?...

The present paper is an integral part of the Preparation of the strategy for social benefits monetization reform in Ukraineʺ project, co-financed by the 2008 Polish aid programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and carried out by CASE in 2008. The paper was prepared...