Tables and Figures -- Sources and Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Discipline and Seduction: The Campaign to Regulate American Workers -- 2 The Mirage of Welfare Reform -- 3 The Long Economic Downturn of the New Century -- 4 A Report from the Front Lines of Welfare Reform -- 5 Privatization, Labor-Management Relations, and Working Conditions for Lower-Skilled Employees -- 6 The Workforce Investment Act and the Labor Movement -- 7 Revolving Doors: Temp Agencies as Accelerators of Churning in Low-Wage Labor Markets -- 8 Evaluating the Living Wage Strategy: Prospects, Problems, and Possibilities -- 9 Labor-Welfare Linkages and the Imperative of Organizing Low-Wage Women Workers -- 10 Urban Poverty, Social Welfare, and Human Rights -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index