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The welfare debate
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The welfare debate

Author: Greg M Shaw
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Series: Historical guides to controversial issues in America
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Greg M Shaw
ISBN: 9780313338922 0313338922
OCLC Number: 152580750
Description: xix, 190 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- The early American roots of welfare -- Controlling the poor in nineteenth-century America -- From mothers' pensions to a troubled aid to dependent children program -- The rise and fall of the war on poverty -- The 1970s and 1980s--backlash and an emerging neoconservative consensus -- The end of welfare entitlement -- A new world of welfare -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Time line of significant developments in American social welfare provision -- Appendix 2: Annotated list of further readings -- Bibliography -- Index.
Series Title: Historical guides to controversial issues in America
Responsibility: Greg M. Shaw.

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