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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... century was proclaimed the Century of the Child , and pressures to make the label stick resulted in the calling of the first White House Conference on Children in 1909 and to a positive statement of public policy in regard to child care ...
... century , the milieu that would create the social work profession was in place . Conclusion If Rip Van Winkle had fallen asleep during the Civil War and awakened at the end of the nineteenth century , he could hardly have been more ...
... century was strongly influenced by the veterans of two wars . Most men who had fought in the Civil War had reached retirement age by the early years of the century , and their economic needs were a major domestic policy issue during ...