Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935û1996

by Nadasen; Premilla

• ISBN13: 9780415989787
• ISBN10: 0415989787
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Following the shifting demographics of the welfare rolls, policy debates about welfare, the institutional history and major turning points over the past seventy years, Welfare in the United States serves as the complete guide to the history of the American welfare program.

Table of Contents

List of Documents	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
AFDC in the Early Years: The 1930s and 1940s	p. 9
New Debates about Welfare, Motherhood, and Work: The 1950s and Early 1960s	p. 23
Welfare Rights and Welfare Reform: The 1960s and 1970s	p. 39
The End of Welfare as We Knew It: The 1980s and 1990s	p. 63
Introduction to the Documents	p. 85
Documents	p. 87
Notes	p. 222
References and Further Reading	p. 225
Permissions Acknowledgments	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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