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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... Movement The failure of Reconstruction led many middle - class social activists to see govern- ment programs as inevitably flawed . During the late nineteenth century , these re- formers led a concerted effort to wrest control of social ...
... movement , 235 , 237-38 , 242 , 245 , 246 , 336 Civil War and after ( 1860-1900 ) , 7,84-126 Charity Organization movement , 100-105 child welfare during , 108-11 depressions , 85 documents , 115-23 farming , 99 immigration , 87-89 ...
... movements , 45-49 slavery during , 37-43 tariff conflict , 42 technological revolution , 47 Temperance Movement , 48-49 territorial expansion , 40-42 textile boom , 43-44 urban population , 44 veterans and , 52 Western migration , 42 ...