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Social Welfare : A History of the American Response to Need
ISBN: 9780205386864 | 0205386865
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008
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Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need, Sixth Edition describes and analyzes the ideas that have shaped the history of social welfare from the Colonial Period to the present day. Using original documents from each respective period through the current Bush Administration, this classic text examines the history of events and ideas that have shaped American social welfare policy. Coverage of economic developments, the impact of voluntarism, the impact of privatization helps students to understand the context of social welfare ... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Document | |
| Introduction | |
| An Act for the Relief of the Poor, 43 Elizabeth, 1601 | |
| The Colonial Period: 1647-1776 | |
| The Poor Laws in the Colonies | |
| Conquest, Expansion, and Population Growth: Native Americans | |
| Immigration, and Slavery | |
| Challenge to the Poor Laws | |
| Vete... MORE | |
| Documents | |
| The Colonial Period | |
| An Act of Supplement to the Acts Referring to the Poor | |
| Massachusetts Bay, 1692 | |
| The Binding of Moses Love, 1747 | |
| The Pre-Civil War Period: 1777-1860 | |
| Labor and Economic Security | |
| The Reform Movements | |
| Institutions, Almshouses, and Paupers | |
| Child Saving | |
| Retreat from the Almshouse | |
| Documents | |
| The Pre-Civil War Period | |
| First Annual Report, Society for the Prevention of Pauperism | |
| In the City of New York, 1818 | |
| Constitution and By-Laws, Female Orphan Asylum of Portland | |
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