Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State

Title: Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State
Author: Michael B Katz
ISBN: 9780805069297
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Published: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st Owl Books Edition, 2002
Number of Pages: 480
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: The culmination of twenty years of research and writing, "The Price of Citizenship "traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs to the war on poverty to our own age of "compassionate conservatism." Historian Michael B. Katz argues that in the last decades three great forces-a ferocious war on dependence; the devolution of authority from the federal government to the states; and the application of market models to social policy-have affected every element of the social contract and redefined both Republican and Democratic policy and rhetoric. Katz shows how these changes are propelling America toward a future of increased inequality and decreased security, while transforming citizenship from a right of birth to a privilege reserved for the fully employed.
A magisterial overview, incisive and bold, "The Price of Citizenship "is a new and indispensable classic work on American social policy.