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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... Efforts to effect child labor legislation were paralleled by efforts to regulate con- ditions and hours of female workers , who constituted 20 percent of the labor force . The coalition of groups working to obtain legislation for each ...
... efforts through the United Service Organization for National Defense ( USO ) to provide services for military personnel , war workers , and transients . More than 1,000 USO centers were established . Fund - raising efforts in the ...
... efforts to restructure and cut back some social se- curity benefits were unsuccessful , as were his protracted efforts to eliminate community legal services . President Bush continued the effort to reduce health , edu- cation , and ...