Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need"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 movements and policies, while material on trends in the justice system include the immigration debate New To This Edition
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... addition to being direct transportation links with Eastern markets , the rail- roads stimulated trade carried on ships operating from the Great Lakes and connect- ing with ports in New York State and in foreign countries . Grazing moved ...
... addition to U.S. Steel . The efforts of the federal government to enforce antitrust laws were largely ineffective . Neverthe- less , by 1914 , supercorporations dominated anthracite coal , agricultural machinery , sugar , telephone and ...
... addition to planned immigration , there were refugee admissions . Refugees from Indochina , from Haiti , and , in 1980 , a new Cuban refugee population arrived in large numbers . Indeed , the anticipated ceilings on immigration of about ...