°WELCOME
°WOMEN, POWER, POLITICS
°OPENING DOORS WIDER
°TALES OF TWO CITIES
°WELFARE HOT BUTTONS
°WOMEN'S WORK
°WOMEN ON THE DEFENSIVE
°OTHER PUBLICATIONS
°NEW RESEARCH
°TEACHING
°ADMINISTRATION
°BRIEF BIO
°WELFARE HOT BUTTONS
 Welfare
Hot Buttons: Women, Work, and Social Policy Reform provides
one of the first comparative assessments of contemporary social policy
changes in the United States, Canada and Great Britain. The study
probes the fate of single mothers on social assistance during the
period when three Third Way political executives were in office --
Bill Clinton (US), Jean Chrétien (Canada) and Tony Blair (Great
Britain). Welfare Hot Buttons argues that despite their seemingly
progressive rhetoric, Third Way leaders introduced social policies
that were in crucial respects more punitive than those of their conservative
predecessors. The book concludes by questioning whether Anglo-American
welfare states are being eclipsed by what the author views as newly
emergent duty states. In her comparative approach and substantive
analysis, Sylvia Bashevkin makes an original and critical contribution
to the social policy field.
Welfare Hot Buttons was published in cloth and paperback editions in the fall of 2002, in Canada by the University of Toronto Press and in the United States by the University of Pittsburgh Press. |
| CONTACT Sylvia Bashevkin at
University College, University of Toronto, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto,
Ontario, M5S 3H7, Canada. Email address: sbashevk@chass.utoronto.ca |