Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. The Theory of Practice -- 1 What Accessibility Can't Do: The Politics of Welfare Scholarship -- 2 The Future of the Past: Jane Addams and the Social Work of Politics -- 3 Radical Incrementalism Personified: The Piven and Cloward Legacy -- 4 Which Side Are You On? Rethinking Research and Advocacy in Social Welfare -- Part II. The Practice of Theory -- 5 The Old Is New: The Racial Basis ofWelfare Reform -- 6 Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad -- 7 Success Stories: Welfare Reform, Policy Discourse, and the Politics of Research -- 8 Compliant Subjects for a New World Order: Globalization and the Behavior Modification Regime of Welfare Reform -- Appendix: Sources and Measures for Data in Chapter 5 -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.