Under Attack, Fighting Back: Women and Welfare in the United States - Softcover

Abramovitz, Mimi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583670084 ISBN 13: 9781583670088

Publisher: Monthly Review Press, 2000

Synopsis

Named an "Outstanding Book" by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America
"Abramovitz introduces the reader to cutting edge socioeconomic analysis. . . . It is not possible to come away from Under Attack, Fighting Back with a sense that welfare is a simplistic topic or that the human consequences of adjustments in the existing system are inconsequential."
--Labor History
"This lively and informative book deserves to be widely read. It provides an excellent history of AFDC and the activities of various women's groups who have campaigned hard over the years for improvements in services to the poor."
--Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
"Extraordinarily lucid and useful . . . "
--In These Times
In this short, eye-opening book, Mimi Abramovitz describes the heartless assault on impoverished single mothers in the name of "ending welfare dependency." Outlining the history of Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Abramovitz shows how the manipulation of gender, race, and class have made welfare vulnerable to attack. This new edition brings a well-received work completely up to date with analysis of recent developments in welfare "reform" and activism.

About this title

About the Author

Mimi Abramovitz is a professor at the Hunter College School of Social Work and author of Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (1988), as well as many articles on women, poverty, and social policy for professional journals and the popular press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583670084
• ISBN 13: 9781583670088
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160