Welfare : a documentary history of U.S. policy and politics

摘要: Federal welfare policy has been a political and cultural preoccupation in the United States for nearly seven decades. Debates about who poor people are, how they got that way, what government should do poverty were particularly bitter misleading at end of twentieth century. These public discussions left most Americans with far more attitude than information poverty, poor, States. In response, Gwendolyn Mink Rickie Solinger compiled first documentary history America, from its origins through present. Welfare: A Documentary History U.S. Policy Politics provides historical context understanding recent developments, as it traces opinion, recipients' experiences, continuities innovations over time. The documents collected range across 100 years, proclamations presidents throughout 20th century, to accounts activist grass roots organizations, newspaper reports editorials, cartoons, posters more. They enable readers go straight source find out figures racialized minds white Americans, explore claim women have babies order collect welfare, trace notion perpetuated contested. also illustrate policymakers different eras invoked politicized idea dependency, well ideas women's dependency followed changing characterizations workers mothers. Welfare picture government's evolving provision, along side powerful examples voices too often eclipsed square-welfare recipients their advocates, speaking mothering, human rights.