No. 44 (Winter 1999 / Spring 2000)
Contents
Editor’s Note 2
Social Policy and Welfare Reform in the United States
Introduction
by Axel R. Schäfer (Guest Editor) 4
The General Federation of Women’s Clubs and American Social Welfare in the Progressive Era
by Elizabeth J. Clapp 7
Social Work and Social Policy in Germany and the United States
by John D. Morrison and Robert A. Wolf 17
Welfare Reform as “Social Experiment?”
by Holger Backhaus-Maul 26
Reform and the State of Welfare Today
by Steven Weir 30
Is Workfare “Ending Welfare as We Know It?”
by Waltraud Schelkle 35
Review Symposium: Daniel T. Rogers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
Atlantic Crossings: A Summary
by Harry Marks 45
Defining and Explaining North Atlantic “Social Politics”
by David Hammack 48
Gender, Race, and the Comparative Project in Atlantic Crossings
by Sonya Michel 50
Atlantic Crossings: Close Encounters, of What Kind?
by Victoria de Grazia 52
A Tale of Pendular Times
by Pierre-Yves Saunier 54
The Lessons of Atlantic Crossings for Europeanists
by Seth Koven 56
Reviews & Resources
Joanne L. Goodwin, Gender and the Politics of Welfare Reform: Mothers' Pensions in Chicago 1911–1929
reviewed by Robyn L. Rosen 58
Internet Resources 59
Further Readings on Social and Welfare Policy 60
Classroom Clips
The Mutable American English Language
by Leslie J. Herring 61
What Does My Map Say? 64