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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... women . In 1869 , women in the suffrage movement split over support of the Fifteenth Amendment . The American Equal Rights Association , which had carried the fight for women's rights since 1866 , was replaced by two contesting groups ...
... women's concerns , particularly because women were considered to possess moral superiority . The work of the WCTU was labeled " home protection " ; the union's first president , Frances E. Willard , called upon all Christian women to ...
... women from black women , middle - class women from lower - class women , nonwork- ing women from working women , and native - born women from immigrant women . There were seemingly irreparable divisions . In the Progressive Era , racism ...