In the shadow of the poorhouse
Subtitle: a social history of welfare in America
By: Michael B. Katz.
Edition: 10th anniversary ed., rev. and updated.
Publisher: BasicBooks
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Public welfare -- United States -- History; Social service -- United States -- History; United States -- Social policy
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 335-371.
Includes indexes.