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?...

June 2004 : an opportunity arises -- June 15, 2004 : a question of needs -- June 16, 2004 : all together now -- October 2004 : a new era begins -- August 29, 2005 : after the storm -- January 2006 : the end or a new beginning?

Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the...