Introduction / Louise Simmons
1. Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers / Frances Fox Piven
2. Mirage of Welfare Reform / Max B. Sawicky
3. Long Economic Downturn of the New Century / Heather Boushey and Robert Cherry
4. Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform / Fran Bernstein and Cecilia Perry
5. Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees / Immanuel Ness and Roland Zullo
6. Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement / Helena Worthen
7. Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets / Chirag Mehta and Nik Theodore
8. Evaluating the Living Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities / David J. Olson and Erich Steinman
9. Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers / Louise Simmons
10. Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights / James Jennings.