US welfare reform: Rewriting the social contract

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 383-399

  Gilbert, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIAL SECURITY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WELFARE PROVISION; WELFARE REFORM;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67749099331     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: 14697823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279409003043     Document Type: Article

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