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Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently

Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Gently used clean and unmarked book, faint wear to cover edges, binding tight, solid and square. No markings, no underlining or highlighting. A comprehensive panoramoc view of social welfare in the United States from the colonial era to the election of Bill Clinton as president. Trattner highlights developments in child welfare, public health, and the evolution of social work as a profession and shows how changes affected the treatment of the poor and needy in America. In this fifth edition, new sections cover topics ranging from the 1992 Los Angeles riots to AIDS to emerging African-American benevolent societies and pays special attention to the worsening problems of child abuse, neglect and homelessness. The author directly addresses racism and sexism in order to pull away from a traditional ethnocentric, male-oriented perspective. 413 pages, indexed. 6 x 9.25 inches. 1994, Free Press/Simon & Schuster, New York.