From Poor Law to Welfare State a History of Social Welfare in America
- List Price: $22.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 6
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 12/01/1998
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Originally published in 1974, this highly regarded text -- the only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from the colonial period to the present -- has been updated to include the latest events and scholarship on the subject. Topics new to this sixth edition include President Clinton's health-care reform and its failure; his efforts to "end welfare as we know it"; recent developments in child welfare, especially the escalating youth crime and poverty rates; AIDS and the reappearance of tuberculosis; and the impact of Murray and Hernstein's The Bell Curve.
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Both a narrative and an interpretive account of social welfare, this work in its various editions has been the premier text in many history and social welfare departments for two decades.
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