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Welfare Reform and the Economic and Cultural Reconstruction of Low Wage Labor Markets
Author(s) -
Fox Piven Frances
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1998.10.1.21
Subject(s) - morality , welfare , cash , welfare reform , labour economics , economics , wage , public morality , market economy , political science , finance , law
“WELFARE REFORM” RADICALLY reorganizes means‐tested cash assistance to families, particularly families headed by women. Much of the public discussion which accompanied these changes focussed on the perverse effects of cash assistance on the personal morality of recipients. More insight can be gained, however, by examining both the material and cultural effects of the campaign against welfare on labor markets. [Welfare reform; labor markets; personal morality]