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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... force pushing to decrease expenditures . The increased labor - force partici- pation of all women - single and married , mothers and the childless - weakens the argument for governmental support of mothers as homemakers . But the desire ...
... force in the 1920s , averaged 4 million , or about 9 percent during 1930. In 1933 , the year that marked the depth of the depression , an average of 13 million persons , some 25 percent of the civilian labor force , were unemployed ...
... force . The civilian labor force grew from 55.6 million in 1940 to 82.7 million in 1970. The expansion was due partially to population growth and partially to a longtime secular increase in labor - force participation rates from 56 ...