Negotiating relief
Subtitle: the development of social welfare programs in depression-era Michigan, 1930-1940
By: Susan Stein-Roggenbuck.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780814210895
Subjects: Public welfare -- Michigan -- History; Welfare recipients -- Michigan -- History; Social service -- Michigan -- History; Depressions -- 1929 -- Michigan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A local problem : social welfare policy before the New Deal; title: The people of Michigan will take care of their own : the Great Depression and the relief problem; title: A contest for home rule : the New Deal federalizes social welfare; title: We need help at once for these poor people : the New Deal and Michigan families; title: These so-called case workers : relief workers and professionalization; title: I can't make a go of it : negotiating relief with the family at the center; title: The right to rule ourselves : a contest for local control.