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, Joe Soss
Fallacies of welfare-to-work policies / Randy Albelda
Violating women: rights abuses in the welfare police state / Gwendolyn Mink
Attacking welfare racism/honoring poor people's human rights / Kenneth J. Neubeck
Welfare reform and neighborhoods: race and civic participation / James Jennings
Friends or foes? Non-profits 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, Mary Bricker-Jenkins.