Mary Jo Bane and David T. Ellwood examine the welfare system - its recipients, its providers and the many policy ideas surrounding it. Focusing on the AFDC Prog

Based on ten years of research, the book follows individuals and families as they apply for and live on public aid and eventually leave the system. Rank's chron

Originally published in 1976, Welfare State and Welfare Society breaks away from the prevailing notion that the welfare state is mainly concerned with the well-

This book sets the record straight about the nation's welfare programs, showing that the gloom and doom surrounding public discussion stem from false ideas abou

Asserts that reality television is a cultural technology through which individuals and groups have come to monitor, motivate, improve, transform and protect the