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Welfare in the United States : a history with documents, 1935-1996 / Premilla Nadasen, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Marisa Chappell.
- Title
- Welfare in the United States : a history with documents, 1935-1996 / Premilla Nadasen, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Marisa Chappell.
- Author
- Nadasen, Premilla
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2009.
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- Description
- x, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Chronicles the major turning points in the seventy-year history of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Illuminating policy debates, shifting demographics, institutional change, and the impact of social movements, serves as a guide to the history of our most controversial welfare program. From publisher description.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-228) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- AFDC in the early years : the 1930s and 1940s -- New debates about welfare, motherhood, and work : the 1950s and early 1960s -- Welfare rights and welfare reform : the 1960s and 1970s -- The end of welfare as we knew it : the 1980s and 1990s.
- ISBN
- 9780415989787 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415989787 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780415989794 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0415989795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008033350
- OCLC
- 181142796
- SCSB-12643098
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library