The reluctant welfare state
Subtitle: engaging history to advance social work practice in contemporary society
By: Bruce S. Jansson
Edition: Eighth edition.
Series: Empowerment series
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Australia; Stamford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 603
ISBN-13: 9781285746944
Subjects: Social policy; Social conditions; Public welfare; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Social reform in a society with conflicting tendencies; title: A framework for understanding the evolution of the reluctant welfare state; title: Fashioning a new society in the wilderness; title: Social welfare policy in the early republic, 1789-1860; title: Lost opportunities : the frontier, the civil war, and industrialization; title: Social reform in the Progressive Era; title: The early stages of the New Deal; title: Institutionalizing the New Deal; title: The era of federal social services : the new frontier and the Great Society; title: The paradoxical era, 1968-1980; title: The conservative counterrevolution in the era of Reagan and Bush; title: Reluctance illustrated : policy uncertainty during the Clinton administration; title: Why has the American welfare state been reluctant?; title: Policy perspectives : past, present, and future.