Welfare in the United States
Subtitle: a history with documents, 1935-1996
By: Premilla Nadasen, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Marisa Chappell.
Contributors: Mittelstadt, Jennifer, 1970-; Chappell, Marisa.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780415989787; 9780415989794
Subjects: Aid to families with dependent children programs -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Poor women -- Government policy -- United States; Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States; Public welfare -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: AFDC in the early years : 1930s and 1940s; title: New debates about welfare, motherhood, and work : 1950s and early 1960s; title: Welfare rights and welfare reform in the 1960s and 1970s; title: The end of welfare as we knew it : 1980s and 1990s.