The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy

The first edition of The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy reinvented the standard social welfare policy text to speak to students in a vital new way. This second edition builds on its strengths, with a more accessible graphic design and a thorough update of the ways in which recent political and legislative changes have affected social welfare programs. The book s five-part policy model which shows how ideology, politics, history, economics, and social movements interact both to create and to change the social welfare system and its overarching progressive narrative are bolstered by lucid discussions of these current issues. Analyzing, for example, recent developments such as the shortfall in the funding of the private pension system and the failed campaign to privatize Social Security; the split in the AFL-CIO and the founding of the Change to Win coalition; the reauthorization of the 1996 Temporary Assistance to Needy Families act; the campaign against Wal-Mart as the embodiment of proliferating low-wage work; and examination of the No Child Left Behind legislation, the authors show students how profoundly policy influences social work practice.
The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy 2/e captures the fluidity and change inherent in social policy like no other textbook. Its approach remains the most invigorating, forward-thinking one available.