With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to “end welfare as we know it.”In the Shadow of the Poorhouse examines the origins of social welfare, both public and private, from the days of the colonial poorhouse through the current tragedy of the homeless. The book explains why such a highly criticized system persists. Katz explores the relationship between welfare and municipal reform; the role of welfare capitalism, eugenics, and social insurance in the reorganization of the labor market; the critical connection between poverty and politics in the rise of the New Deal welfare state; and how the War on Poverty of the ’60s became the war on welfare of the ’80s.
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According to Katz, the American welfare system that nobody likes has been able to resist fundamental change over two centuries because of its symbiosis with the social structure and the political economy. From his analysis of the history of welfare in the United States he finds that there have always been contradictions among its goals: deterrence, discipline, compassion, control, and patronage. Real reform, unlikely in the near future, would require that both social insurance and public assistance be replaced with full employment at fair pay, complemented by a social wage to all who are unable to work or find a suitable job. A stimulating challenge to the benevolent interpretation of welfare in America; recommended for academic and large public libraries. Harry Frumerman , formerly with Economics Dept., Hunter Coll., CUNY
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This controversial history of welfare in America argues that government must be the source of social progress.
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This is a must have for your library if you are interested in or work within the social sciences. Great history text of social welfare in the US. I highly recommend as it applies to social policy and practice today.
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Throughout the century before the New Deal, the poorhouse dominated the structure of welfare-or, as it was called then, relief. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
semiwelfare state, social secunh, social securih, public outdoor relief, public welfare officials, private welfare state, poorhouse populations, poorhouse inmates, general assistance recipients, scientific charity, charity reformers, municipal lodging house, urban experts, charity organization movement, tenement house reform, county almshouses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Deal, United States, Ness York, World War, Civil War, Jane Addams, State Board of Charities, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court, Harry Hopkins, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Children's Act, Hull House, President Roosevelt, State Charities Aid Association, Yates Report, Economic Opportunity Act, Frances Perkins, Great Britain, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Kings County, State Care Act, Census Bureau New!
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Throughout the century before the New Deal, the poorhouse dominated the structure of welfare-or, as it was called then, relief. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
semiwelfare state, social secunh, social securih, public outdoor relief, public welfare officials, private welfare state, poorhouse populations, poorhouse inmates, general assistance recipients, scientific charity, charity reformers, municipal lodging house, urban experts, charity organization movement, tenement house reform, county almshouses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Deal, United States, Ness York, World War, Civil War, Jane Addams, State Board of Charities, Ronald Reagan, Supreme Court, Harry Hopkins, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Children's Act, Hull House, President Roosevelt, State Charities Aid Association, Yates Report, Economic Opportunity Act, Frances Perkins, Great Britain, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Kings County, State Care Act, Census Bureau New!
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- The Promise of Greatness by Sar A. Levitan on 4 pages
- Beyond Entitlement by Lawrence M. Mead in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Welfare (Aspects of Britain) by Central Office of Information in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Social Policy in the United States by Theda Skocpol in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Religion and the Rise of the American City: New York City Mission Movement, 1812-70 by Carroll Smith Rosenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Hidden Welfare State: Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States by Christopher Howard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The New Social Contract: America's Journey from Welfare State to Police State by Joseph Dillon Davey in Front Matter, page 38, and Back Matter
- Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (Early American Studies) by Simon P. Newman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The New Social Contract: America's Journey from Welfare State to Police State by Joseph Dillon Davey in Front Matter, page 38, and Back Matter
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