Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net by Maggie

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Although it's commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the twenty-first century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, which essentially subsidizes low-wage jobs. Excluded populations—such as the unemployed, informally employed workers, and undocumented immigrants—must rely on charity to survive.Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States.

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"Maggie Dickinson has written a wonderful book that grasps the essential features of our restructured social policies and provides a ground-level view of what the new workfare policies mean in the lives of the many people enmeshed in them."--Frances Fox Piven, author of Challenging Authority and coauthor of Regulating the Poor and Poor People's Movements "More than two decades after the publication of Janet Poppendieck's groundbreaking Sweet Charity? , Dickinson updates and brings additional complexity to an analysis of the impoverished state of the American food safety net. The ethnographic moments are engaging and moving; the arguments smart and nuanced. Feeding the Crisis is a highly teachable book!"--Julie Guthman, author of Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism "This is an incredibly important book. It not only offers a study of food assistance programs in the wake of both the 1996 welfare reform and 2008 financial crisis, but also ties its primary concern with hunger to thinking about the nature of formal and informal work, broader changes in the economy, and the gendering of paid and care work."--Alison Hope Alkon, author of Black, White, and Green: Farmer Markets, Race, and the Green Economy

Author Biography

Maggie Dickinson is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the City University of New York's Guttman Community College.

Review

"Dickinson's engrossing, clear and important contribution to the study of comparative welfare reform points to an urgent need to expand the range of options that are politically thinkable in the present." * PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Timely and important. . . . [The book's] main strength lies in its clarity in characterizing America's food safety net for a broad audience, making it an excellent text for those working in NGOs and policy making in the fields of social assistance, poverty and social exclusion." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Feeding the Crisis is an essential read for anyone interested in nutrition, hunger, and labor policy in America." * Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *"Feeding the Crisis offers compelling and important contributions to the anthropology of work, highlighting the urgent need for both scholars and policymakers to understand how food access and the broader emergency food system are connected to the labor market, welfare reform, and public health interventions." * Exertions *"Feeding the Crisis is an essential read for anyone interested in nutrition, hunger,and labor policy in America." * Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *"Feeding the Crisis offers compelling and important contributions to the anthropology of work, highlighting the urgent need for both scholars and policymakers to understand how food access and the broader emergency food system are connected to the labor market, welfare reform, and public health interventions." * Exertions *"Dickinson unravels a narrative that can lead others to understand the bind that hungry families face each day and perhaps lead to social change." * Food, Culture & Society *

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"Dickinson's engrossing, clear and important contribution to the study of comparative welfare reform points to an urgent need to expand the range of options that are politically thinkable in the present."

Details ISBN0520307674 Author Maggie Dickinson Year 2019 ISBN-10 0520307674 ISBN-13 9780520307674 Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Pages 224 DEWEY 363.809747/1 Short Title Feeding the Crisis Language English Series Number 71 Publication Date 2019-11-19 UK Release Date 2019-11-19 AU Release Date 2019-11-19 NZ Release Date 2019-11-19 US Release Date 2019-11-19 Publisher University of California Press Series California Studies in Food and Culture Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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