The welfare debate / Greg M. Shaw.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Shaw, Greg M.

Series:

• Historical guides to controversial issues in America 1541-0021
• Historical guides to controversial issues in America, 1541-0021

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Public welfare--United States.
• Public welfare.
• Social policy.
• History.
• United States.
• United States--Social policy--History.

Physical Description:

xix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Summary:

A political scientist and public-opinion analyst illuminates the shifting perceptions and moral constants that have governed the welfare debate in America since the earliest days of European settlement.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-186) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780313338922
• 0313338922

OCLC:

152580750