In The Shadow Of The Poorhouse Tenth Anniversary Edition

Author : Michael B Katz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465024520

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In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Michael B Katz Pdf

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.

Author : Michael B Katz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465024520

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In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse (Tenth Anniversary Edition) by Michael B Katz Pdf

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.

Author : Michael B. Katz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0465032265

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In The Shadow Of The Poorhouse by Michael B. Katz Pdf

In this history, Katz explores the roots of our ambivalence toward welfare and the welfare state, revealing the patterns which have recurred from era to era and which continue to frustrate reformers to this day. From the poorhouse era to the New Deal, from the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare, Katz provides the long perspective so often missing from the debates over "ending welfare as we know it". And this tenth anniversary edition contains an expanded introduction and a new concluding chapter, bringing the story to the present and analyzing the politics that lie behind the welfare reform act of 1996.

Author : Gabriel J. Loiacono
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197515457

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How Welfare Worked in the Early United States by Gabriel J. Loiacono Pdf

What was American welfare like in George Washington's day? It was expensive, extensive, and run by local governments. Known as "poor relief," it included what we would now call welfare and social work. Unlike other aspects of government, poor relief remained consistent in structure between the establishment of the British colonies in the 1600s and the New Deal of the 1930s. In this book, Gabriel J. Loiacono follows the lives of five people in Rhode Island between the Revolutionary War and 1850: a long-serving overseer of the poor, a Continental Army veteran who was repeatedly banished from town, a nurse who was paid by the government to care for the poor, an unwed mother who cared for the elderly, and a paralyzed young man who attempted to become a Christian missionary from inside of a poorhouse. Of Native, African, and English descent, these five Rhode Islanders utilized poor relief in various ways. Tracing their involvement with these programs, Loiacono explains the importance of welfare through the first few generations of United States history. In Washington's day, poor relief was both generous and controlling. Two centuries ago, Americans paid for--and many relied on--an astonishing governmental system that provided food, housing, and medical care to those in need. This poor relief system also shaped American households and dictated where Americans could live and work. Recent generations have assumed that welfare is a new development in the United States. This book shows how old welfare is in the United States of America through five little-known, but compelling, life stories.

Author : Philip R. Popple
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190607340

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Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States by Philip R. Popple Pdf

The first new social work history to be written in over twenty years, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States presents a history of the field from the perspective of elites, service providers, and recipients. This book uniquely chronicles and analyzes the development of social work practice theory on two levels: from the top down, looking at the writings, conference presentations, and training course material developed by leaders of the profession; and from the bottom up, looking at case records for evidence of techniques that were actually applied by social workers in the field. Additionally, the author takes a careful and critical look at the development of social work methods, setting it apart from existing histories that generally accept the effectiveness of the field's work. Addressing CSWE EPAS standards at both the BSW and MSW levels, Social Work Practice and Social Welfare Policy in the United States is ideal both as a primary text for history of social work/social welfare classes and a supplementary text for introduction to social work/social welfare or social welfare policy and services classes.

Author : Organization of American Historians. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Historians
ISBN : UVA:X006007158

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Program of the ... Annual Meeting by Organization of American Historians. Meeting Pdf

Author : Andrew J. Cherlin
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Families
ISBN : CORNELL:31924074270947

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Public and Private Families by Andrew J. Cherlin Pdf

Designed for courses in sociology of the family, this work covers a variety of topics, including: the history of the family; gender and families; class; race and ethnicity; families and the state; family formation; spouses and partners; and domestic violence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : African Americans
ISBN : NWU:35556037816444

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The Journal of African American History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marijata Colley Daniel-Echols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015054115723

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Mandates, Ideals, and Survival by Marijata Colley Daniel-Echols Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Communism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063885797

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Social Justice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Specht,Mark E. Courtney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439108710

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Unfaithful Angels by Harry Specht,Mark E. Courtney Pdf

In this provocative examination of the fall of the profession of social work from its original mission to aid and serve the underprivileged, Harry Specht and Mark Courtney show how America's excessive trust in individualistic solutions to social problems have led to the abandonment of the poor in this country. A large proportion of all certified social workers today have left the social services to enter private practice, thereby turning to the middle class -- those who can afford psychotherapy -- and away from the poor. As Specht and Courtney persuasively demonstrate, if social work continues to drift in this direction there is good reason to expect that the profession will be entirely engulfed by psychotherapy within the next twenty years, leaving a huge gap in the provision of social services traditionally filled by social workers. The authors examine the waste of public funds this trend occasions, as social workers educated with public money abandon community service in increasing numbers.

Author : L. Christopher Plein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : UIUC:30112084330692

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Welfare Reform in a Hard Place by L. Christopher Plein Pdf

Author : Elizabeth A. Throop
Publisher : Culture, Mind, and Society
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082675839

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Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy by Elizabeth A. Throop Pdf

Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy provides a lively indictment of psychotherapy and individualism by examining American cultural structures-child-rearing, family life, mental illness, and education. Throop advances a complex argument that American reliance on psychotherapy to explain these structures is a poor justification which neglects those most in need and pain. Both interdisciplinary and solidly anthropological, this study is sure to provoke discussion from both the right and the left and cause serious consideration of Throop’s call for cultural change and just social policies.

Author : Brendon O'Connor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015057582044

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A Political History of the American Welfare System by Brendon O'Connor Pdf

John Maynard Keynes once noted that "Madmen in authority... are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." O'Connor (politics and public policy, Griffith U., Australia) supports this observation in his study of the development of the American welfare system and the broader world of political language and rhetoric within which it has been shaped. Studying welfare policy from Lyndon Johnson's liberal social agenda to Bill Clinton's "ending welfare as we know it," he divides the period (and his book) into three sections corresponding to welfare politics that conformed to liberal ideology, the conservative backlash against liberalism, and the forging of a conservative welfare system. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : James T. Patterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674041943

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America’s Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century by James T. Patterson Pdf

This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition. He focuses the story on the impact of the highly controversial welfare reform of 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democratic President Clinton, despite the laments of anguished liberals.