Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: September 22, 2006
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9781410614629
Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: In The Waterworks, E. L. Doctorow's narrator describes the world of the "street rats," the destitute children of New York City in the late 1800s, before the advent of the Progressive era and 50 years prior to the New Deal and the signing of the Social Security Act, which guaranteed legal entitlement to public assistance for all poor children.