A New History of Social WelfareThis book offers a wide-ranging view of religious, economic and political forces from prehistory, the Clinton administration, and the actions of the 104th Congress. This revised study reviews the history of social welfare in the USA, including that relating to women and minority groups. This edition emphasizes particularly the political and economic aspects of a global-international society. It also features a up-to-date critical analysis of the far-right backlash against social welfare and social programmes, through the US 104th Congress. |
Contents
The Institution of Social Welfare | 30 |
Political Economy | 61 |
Feudalism and the Welfare State | 89 |
Copyright | |
11 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration AFDC African American agencies almshouses Axinn and Levin became began benefits Bureau casework charity child Children's Defense Fund church cities civil rights clients Congress costs Courier-Post Court dependent developed disabled early earned economic Ehrenreich eligibility employment Ethnic families federal food stamps force funds grants groups Hispanic hospitals housing Ibid immigrants income increased industrial institutions Introduction to Social Irony of Democracy labor land laws legislation lived Medicaid Medicare million moral mothers movement National Native Americans organized outdoor relief paid percent perspective Policy political Poor Law poor relief population poverty problems programs protection Protestant work ethic public assistance Public Welfare Reagan recipients reform religion Richard Cloward sexual slaves social Darwinism social insurance Social Security social services Social Welfare social workers society tion unemployed United wages women York