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Social Welfare : A History of the American Response to Need

ISBN: 9780801317002 | 0801317002
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pub. Date: 11/1/1996

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Table of Contents
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Prefacexiii
1 Introduction
1(12)
DOCUMENT: INTRODUCTION An Act for the Relief of the Poor, 43 Elizabeth, 1601
8(5)
2 The Colonial Period: 1647-1776
13(22)
The Poor Laws in the Colonies
14(8)
Conquest, Expansion, and Population Growth: Native Americans, Immigration, and Slavery
22(5)
Challenge to the Poor Laws
27(1)
Veterans: A Special Class
28(2)
DOCUMENTS: THE COLONIAL PERIOD
30(5)
An Act of Supplement to the Acts Referring to the Poor, Massachusetts Bay, 1692
30(2)
The Binding of Moses Love, 1747
32(3)
3 The Pre-Civil War Period: 1777-1860
35(46)
Labor and Economic Security
40(2)
The Reform Movements
42(4)
Institutions, Almshouses, and Paupers
46(8)
Child Saving
54(3)
Retreat from the Almshouse
57(3)
DOCUMENTS: THE PRE-CIVIL WAR PERIOD
60(21)
First Annual Report, Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in New York City, 1818
61(7)
Constitution and By-Laws, Female Orphan Asylum of Portland, Maine, 1828
68(6)
President Franklin Pierce, Veto Message, Ten-Million Acre Bill, 1854
74(7)
4 The Civil War and After: 1860-1900
81(42)
Population Changes
82(5)
Naturalization and Citizenship
83(2)
Regional Shifts
85(2)
The Welfare of Soldiers and Veterans
87(2)
Social Welfare: The Rural South
89(3)
Social Welfare: Urban Problems
92(3)
The Charity Organization Movement
95(5)
The Social Welfare of Women
100(2)
A New View of Child Welfare
102(4)
The Aging: The Group That Was Left Behind
106(1)
The Settlement House Movement
107(2)
DOCUMENTS: THE CIVIL WAR AND AFTER
109(14)
State of New York, Act to Provide for the Relief of Indigent Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines and the Families of Deceased Military Personnel, 1887
110(1)
Josephine Shaw Lowell, "The Economic and Moral Effects of Public Outdoor Relief," Proceedings, NCCC, 1890
111(2)
An Act to Prohibit the Coming of Chinese Laborers to the United States, September 13, 1888
113(4)
An Act, A Supplement, October 1, 1888
117(6)
5 Progress and Reform: 1900-1930
123(45)
Poverty and the Working Class
126(2)
Coalitions for Reform
128(5)
Social Reform: Working Conditions
133(2)
Social Reform: Women, Work, and Suffrage
135(2)
Social Reform: Income Security
137(3)
Social Reform: Family Welfare
140(4)
Social Work and the Black Population
144(1)
The End of Reform
145(2)
The Social Welfare of Veterans
147(2)
The Professionalization of Social Work
149(3)
DOCUMENTS: PROGRESS AND REFORM
152(16)
Florence Kelley, "The Family and the Woman's Wage," Proceedings, NCCC, 1909
153(2)
Funds to Parents Act, Illinois, 1911
155(1)
Frederic Almy et al., "Public Pensions to Widows," Proceedings, NCCC, 1912
156(12)
6 The Depression and the New Deal: 1930-1940
168(52)
The Hoover Response to Crisis
170(1)
FDR and the New Deal
171(5)
Labor and Social Welfare
176(2)
Veterans and the Bonus
178(2)
Public Money for Relief
180(3)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
183(4)
The Social Security Act
187(5)
Family Life and Social Workers
192(3)
New Alignments in Social Welfare
195(3)
Conclusion
198(2)
DOCUMENTS: THE DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
200(20)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Monthly Report, Rules and Regulations, 1933
201(5)
Social Security Act, 1935
206(14)
7 War and Prosperity: 1940-1970
220(48)
Population Shifts
222(3)
Technology, Productivity, and Economic Insecurity
225(2)
World War II
227(2)
Wartime Economic and Social Advances
229(2)
Veterans and the G.I. Bill
231(2)
Postwar Optimism
233(1)
The Attack on Public Welfare
234(2)
Poverty and the Reform of Welfare
236(6)
The War on Poverty
242(3)
Expanded Benefits for the Aging
245(1)
Reform of Welfare: 1967
246(2)
Civil Rights and Juvenile Justice
248(2)
DOCUMENTS: WAR AND PROSPERITY
250(18)
President John F. Kennedy, Message on Public Welfare, 1962
251(5)
Economic Opportunity Act, 1964
256(4)
U.S. Supreme Court, In re Gault, 1967
260(8)
8 Economic and Social Stagnation: 1970-1990
268(37)
Changing Employment Patterns
270(1)
The Changing Family
270(3)
Poverty and Income Distribution
273(3)
The Retreat from "Rights"
276(4)
Expenditures for Social Welfare
280(2)
New Approaches to Income Security
282(8)
Welfare Reform
282(4)
The Aging
286(2)
The Unemployed
288(2)
Women
290(1)
Veterans
291(2)
DOCUMENTS: ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL STAGNATION
293(12)
President Richard M. Nixon, Message on Reform in Welfare, 1969
294(6)
Standard of Review for Termination of Disability Benefits, 1984
300(5)
9 A Turn to the Right: The 1990s
305(30)
The Economy: Productivity, Growth, and Employment
306(1)
The Rich and the Poor
306(2)
Poverty
308(1)
Changes in Family Composition
308(1)
The Family and Medical Leave Act: One Response to Changes in Family Structure
309(1)
Population Shifts
309(1)
Immigration Debates
310(1)
Welfare Reform
311(5)
The Rationale
311(1)
The Data
312(1)
The Legislation
313(1)
State Initiatives
314(1)
The Governors' Proposals
315(1)
Health Programs
316(3)
The Problems
316(1)
Reform Efforts
317(1)
Health Care Reform: A Change in Direction
317(2)
The Retreat From "Rights" Continues
319(2)
Education
319(1)
Affirmative Action in the Marketplace
320(1)
Abortion
321(1)
Epilogue
321(2)
DOCUMENTS: A TURN TO THE RIGHT
323(12)
State of California, Proposition 187, Illegal Aliens-Public Services, Verification, and Reporting, 1994
324(3)
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Hopwood v. Texas, 1996
327(8)
Index335

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