Bold Relief
Co-Winner of the 1999 Distinguished Publication Award, Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological AssociationOne ofChoice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998"InBold Relief, Edwin Amenta brings welcome attention to the wide range of social services promulgated in the mid- and late 1930s....Bold Reliefoffers a useful and insightful overview of the origin and limits to US social policy."--Political Science Quarterly"With convincing evidence,Bold Relieflimns a bold new vision of federal social policy from the New Deal through the 1940s."--Reviews in American History"Amenta insists that [social insurance and assistance programs] were constructed around the public provision of work for those in need.... The argument is impressive, and it offers a political reminder that providing work was, for a time, thought a legitimate and desirable role for governments."--The Times Higher Education Supplement"Bold Reliefrestores an important dimension to the history of American social policy.... One hopes that the book will inspire advocates of all kinds of policy to be bolder--and better informed--about creating the political and administrative preconditions necessary for new social policies."--Social Service Reviews