Michael K. Brown
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 420
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The policy settlement of 1935 -- The origins of a racially stratified welfare state -- Stacking the deck: the truncation of universalism, 1939-1950 -- Bargaining for social rights: unions and the reemergence of welfare capitalism -- The color of truncated universalism -- The political and economic origins of the Great Society -- Building a redistributive state -- "To fulfill these rights" -- Remaking the Great Society -- The ghetto in the welfare state: race, gender, and class after the Great Society -- The welfare state and democracy in America.