The War on Welfare
ISBN: 9780812201567
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Aid to families with dependent children programs; Welfare recipients; Poor women; Public welfare;

Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, this comprehensive history of the thirty year war over welfare shows how stubborn allegiance to the male-headed household undermined the struggle for economic justice.

Marisa Chappell teaches history at Oregon State University.

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