Welfare

A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics

Autor: Rickie Solinger, Frances Fox Piven

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Wydawca: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Federal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for near...

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Autor

Rickie Solinger, Frances Fox Piven

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2003

strony

817

EAN

9780814756539

ISBN

0814756530

Enbook ID

04931981

Wydawca

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Waga

1674

Wymiary

178 x 254 x 44

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Federal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, and what the government should do about poverty were particularly bitter and misleading at the end of the twentieth century. These public discussions left most Americans with far more attitude than information about poverty, the poor, and poverty policy in the United States. In response, Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger compiled the first documentary history of welfare in America, from its origins through the present. Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics provides historical context for understanding recent policy developments, as it traces public opinion, recipients' experiences, and policy continuities and innovations over time. The documents collected range across more than 100 years, from government documents and proclamations of presidents throughout the 20th century, to accounts of activist and grass roots organizations, newspaper reports and editorials, political cartoons, posters and more. They enable readers to go straight to the source to find out how public figures racialized welfare in the minds of white Americans, to explore the origins of the claim that poor women have babies in order to collect welfare, and to trace how that notion has been perpetuated and contested. The documents also illustrate how policymakers in different eras have invoked and politicized the idea of dependency, as well as how ideas about women's dependency have followed changing characterizations of poor women as workers and as mothers. Welfare provides a picture of the government's evolving ideas about poverty and provision, along side powerful examples of the voices too often eclipsed in the public square--welfare recipients and their advocates, speaking about mothering, poverty, and human rights.

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