In The Shadow Of The Poorhouse

In The Shadow Of The Poorhouse
ISBN-10
0465032265
ISBN-13
9780465032266
Category
History
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
1988-06-01
Publisher
Basic Books
Author
Michael B. Katz

Description

In this history, Katz explores the roots of our ambivalence toward welfare and the welfare state, revealing the patterns which have recurred from era to era and which continue to frustrate reformers to this day. From the poorhouse era to the New Deal, from the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare, Katz provides the long perspective so often missing from the debates over "ending welfare as we know it". And this tenth anniversary edition contains an expanded introduction and a new concluding chapter, bringing the story to the present and analyzing the politics that lie behind the welfare reform act of 1996.

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