Who deserves Help? Who must provide? / Linda Gordon -- Globalization, American politics, and welfare policy / Frances Fox Piven -- Welfare reform, family hardship, and women of color / Linda Burnham -- Success stories : welfare reform, policy discourse, and the politics of research / Sanford F. Schram and Joe Soss -- Fallacies of welfare-to-work policies / Randy Albelda -- Violating women : rights abuses in the welfare police state / Gwendolyn Mink -- Welfare reform and neighborhoods : race and civic participation / James Jennings -- Friends or foes? Nonprofits and the puzzle of welfare reform / Ann Withorn -- Learning from the history of poor and working-class women's activism / Mimi Abramovitz -- Closing the care gap that welfare reform left behind / Lucie E. White -- A view from the bottom : poor people and their allies respond to welfare reform / Willie Baptist and Mary Bricker-Jenkins.
