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Book SynopsisPinder examines the interrelatedness of globalization and workfare and how this interrelatedness is impacting black single mother welfare recipients. The book builds on these insights and seeks to illuminate a crucial but largely overlooked aspect of the negative impact of workfare on black women and the American economy.
Trade ReviewIn her newest book Black Women, Work, and Welfare in the Age of Globalization, Sherrow Pinder does a masterful job in showing how economic globalization and its accompanying neoliberal model of welfare as workfare has resulted in an ongoing “death-in-life” racialization of poverty among poor black women. Given the current context of rampant poverty in the Unites States, Pinder makes a persuasive and passionate argument for welfare as a fundamental social right. It is a must read for those interested in how global markets affect economic inequality and gendered racism in today’s societies. -- Monica Ciobanu, Plattsburgh State University of New York
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1: Conceptual Framework
Chapter 2: Globalization, American Economy, and Restructuring of Welfare
Chapter 3: A Closer Look at Workfare and Black Single Mother Welfare Recipients
Chapter 4: The Social Rights of Citizenship, Welfare, and the Undeserving Poor
Conclusion: Resisting the Neoliberal Workfare State
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