Building the Invisible Orphanage
Subtitle: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: March 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674005549
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Child welfare; Political science & theory; Welfare & benefit systems; United States - General; History: American; History; History - General History; USA; History & Theory - General; Public Policy - Social Policy; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare
First sentence: JAMES WEST was still an infant at the time of his father's death, and not quite six in 1882 when his mother left him at the Washington City Orphan Asylum so that she could enter Providence Hospital, where she died of consumption three months later.