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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... poor person is an inhabi- tant , cut either in red or blue cloth , as by the overseers of the poor , it shall be di- rected and appointed . " 26 In New York , relief recipients were required to wear badges enscribed with the large ...
... Poor Laws were a product of a society that used the legal system to constrain a dynamic population during a time of ... Poor Laws ' ineffectiveness was to make them more restrictive . Yet , for others , the alternative conclusion was ...
... poor made to provide , par- tially at least for their own support , and also to the support , or at least the com- fort of the impotent poor.43 In summary , the report stressed the responsibility of society to diminish pau- perism and ...