Citizens and paupers
Subtitle: relief, rights, and race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare
By: Chad Alan Goldberg.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780226300764; 9780226300771
Subjects: United States. -- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.; Public welfare -- United States -- History.; Welfare state -- United States -- History.; Freedmen -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.; Welfare recipients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History.; Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.
Table of contents: value: Paupers or citizens? struggles over the status and rights of welfare state claimants; value: "The 'pauper slavery' of the poorhouse" : the Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872; value: An honorable alternative to poor relief : Civil War veterans' pensions, 1862-1890; value: "They are just 'reliefers' and have no rights" : the Works Progress Administration, 1935-1942; value: "A different class from the ordinary relief case" : old-age insurance, 1935-1949; value: "Work with no rights and no pay equals slavery" : workfare in New York City, 1993-2001; value: Respectable aid for the working poor : the earned income tax credit, 1975-2001; value: Conclusion: Relief, rights, and race in the development of the welfare state.