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About the Author Sanford F. Schram teaches social policy and social theory in the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of After Welfare: The Culture of Postindustrial Social Policy (New York University Press, 2000); and Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 1995), which won the Michael Harrington Award from the American Political Science Association. He is also co-editor with Samuel H. Beer of Welfare Reform: A Race to the Bottom? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); and, with Philip Neisser, Tales of the State: Narrative in U.S. Politics and Public Policy (Rowman and Littlefield, 1997). He has published articles on the politics of welfare in the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Polity, Rethinking MARXISM, Social Text, and other journals. 303 ...

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