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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- The Resurgence of Political Economy -- The Poverty of Economics -- The Scope and Method of Economic Science -- The Futility of Marginal Utility -- The Disintegration of Economics -- The Nature of Labor Exchange and the Theory of Capitalist Production -- Economics: The Revival of Political Economy -- II. Post-Keynesian and Neo-Ricardian Political Economy -- Introduction -- Markets and Institutions as Features of a Capitalistic Production System -- The Revolutionary Character of Post-Keynesian Economics

One main effort of welfare reform is to replace public assistance with earnings. To date, politicians & welfare reform advocates have applauded the efforts & claimed success. However, lurking at the surface of welfare-to-work policies are serious problems & structural impediments. Lack of jobs, low-paying jobs, & difficulties in securing ancillary supports like transportation & child care are obvious problems that are not easily resolved. However, a deeper & usually unaddressed problem is that the jobs low-income women take (or need) are not mother-ready. Full-time low-wage work does not provide enough income to support families, nor does it accommodate the demands that full-time parents have. These problems plague welfare-to-work efforts & make life very difficult for poor, single-mother families. At the same time, they create an opportunity to consider the value of caregiving work & to reform the nature of low-wage work. 25 References. Adapted from the source document.

This article examines the convergence of black and white women's incomes, labor force participation rates in capitalist production and the state sector, and convergence of occupational distributions. It is argued that current labor market segmentation theory does not explain the existence and persistence of the racial and sexual division of paid labor. It then considers whether labor market segmentation theory can be refined to explain these changes in the labor market experiences of black and white women in the post WWII period. It is argued that since racism and patriarchy play important roles in the control of labor and the organization of work both historically and theoretically, segmentation theory can only provide an adequate explanation of the development of segmented markets and their racial and gender components by explicitly recognizing racism and patriarchy. Labor market segmentation is the historical process creating labor markets differentiated by race and sex in capitalist and government workplaces.

Examines welfare reform in light of larger political, economic, and policy shifts; some focus on the role of welfare policy changes in masking and revealing US gender, race, and class relations; 11 articles.