Basics
Some key concepts
Welfare basics

Week 6
The working poor

Week 7
Caricatures of the poor
Living wages

Week 8
McDonaldization and work (effects)
Low wage work and poverty--comparing perspectives
Mead and Ehrenreich compared

Weeks 9 - 10
Expanding the welfare concept (corporate welfare)
Community Development
Low wage work and poverty--comparing perspectives
Welfare reform revisited
More on reform
Reforming welfare reform
Shipler and reform
Outline

 

Week 1

Some statistics, concepts dealing with poverty
More on inequality
Structural and individual explanations
Discussion outline
Discussion outline 2

Week 2
Social welfare: Historical highlights
Capitalism primer
Welfare as regulator of the poor?
Welfare in the 1960s
The Business backlash
Outline

Week 3
Is there a culture of poverty?
Rural poverty
Who benefits from poverty?
Systems of privilege
Living wage
Outline

Week 4
Some basic questions to ask about welfare programs
Welfare programs

Week 5
Bureaucracy
Work ethic and family values(?)