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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... immigrants arrived in the United States . Immigration rose to 1,427,337 during the 1840s and peaked during the 1850s with the arrival of 2,814,554 individuals . Interestingly , the 1860s , which en- compassed the war years , showed only ...
... immigrants to the United States between 1865 and 1900 to- taled 13 million , which constituted 32 percent of the increase in population during those years . In the 1870s and early 1880s , they came largely from Great Britain ...
... immigrants came into the country as close relatives of U.S. citizens or as refugees than were entering under the hemispheric quotas . Of the 1.5 million legal immigrants in 1990 , fewer than 300,000 came under the immigration quotas ...