Price of Citizenship Redefining the American Welfare State

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ISBN: 9780812220186

ISBN-10: 0812220188

ISBN-13: 9780812220186

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Michael B. Katz

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For Michael B. Katz, the term "welfare state" describes the intricate web of government programs, employer-provided benefits, and semiprivate organizations intended to promote economic security and to guarantee the basic necessities of life for all citizens: food, shelter, medical care, protection in childhood, and support in old age. In this updated edition of his seminal work The Price of Citizenship, Katz traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and into our own age, marked by the "end of welfare as we know it." Katz argues that in the last decades, three great forces--a ferocious war on dependence, which has singled out the most…

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List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/28/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Michael B. Katz is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania & the author of ten books, including "The Undeserving Poor" & "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse". A Fellow of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies & the Russell Sage Foundation, he lives in Philadelphia & Oquossoc, Maine.



Prologue: The Invention of Welfare



The American Welfare State



Poverty and Inequality in the New American City



The Family Support Act and the Illusion of Welfare Reform



Governors as Welfare Reformers



Urban Social Welfare in an Age of Austerity



The Independent Sector, the Market, and the State



The Private Welfare State and the End of Paternalism



Increased Risks for the Injured, Disabled, and Unemployed



New Models for Social Security



The Assimilation of Health Care to the Market



Fighting Poverty 1990s Style



The End of Welfare



Work, Democracy, and Citizenship


Postscript: The Post-9/11 American Welfare State


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index