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Betty Reid Mandell is Professor Emerita at Bridgewater State College. She has co-authored Introduction to Human Services: Policy and Practice, 7th ed., She has also published Welfare in America: Controlling the “Dangerous Classes,” and Where Are the Children?A Class Analysis of Foster Care and Adoption. She is co-editor of New Politics. She has been a social worker in child welfare, mental health, and welfare agencies. She has been a welfare rights activist since the 1960s.
Introduction | p. 1 |
Who Cares?: The Crisis of Caregiving | p. 5 |
Women's Work, Mother's Poverty: Are Men's Wages the Best Cure for Women's Economic Insecurity? | p. 33 |
Paid Family and Medical Leave | p. 47 |
The Privatization of Care | p. 63 |
Shelters for the Homeless: A Feeble Response to Homelessness | p. 81 |
Foster Care | p. 113 |
Adoption | p. 145 |
The Punitive State: Dimensions of Incarceration in the United States | p. 181 |
Alternatives to Welfare | p. 207 |
Current Safety Net Programs | p. 231 |
Advocacy Organizations Concerned with Caregiving and Social Justice | p. 245 |
Contributors | p. 257 |
Index | p. 259 |
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