"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
