Social solutions to poverty
Subtitle: America's struggle to build a just society
By: edited with contributions by Scott J. Myers-Lipton ; foreword by Charles Lemert.
Contributors: Myers-Lipton, Scott J.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781594512100; 9781594512117
Subjects: Poverty -- United States -- History; Social justice -- United States -- History; Social reformers -- United States -- History; Social movements -- United States; Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States -- History
Description: The voices of famous and lesser known figures in America's quest to reduce poverty are collected for the first time in this comprehensive historical anthology. Traces the most important ideas and contributions of citizens, activists, labor leaders, scholars, politicians, and governmental agencies to ensure American citizens the basics of food, housing, employment, education, and health care. Each chapter is composed of three sections. The first includes a discussion of the social context of the time period, as well as a general overview of the solutions from each era. The second contains five to seven original documents (i.e., speeches, articles, and proposals) that highlight the various grassroots and elite plans. The third includes a discussion of the outcome of each proposal. From publisher description.
Notes: "Great Barrington books"--P. [ii].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Native American contributions to egalitarianism; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: On cannibals, Michel de Montaigne; title: Curious dialogues, Louis Armand de Lom D'Arce Lahontan; title: Distresses of a frontier man, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur; title: Agrarian justice, Thomas Paine; title: Message from the Western Indians to the commisioners of the United States, the General Council of Indians at Miami Rapids; title: Epilogue: outcomes; title: The early republic and Pre-Civil War America: moral cures, poorhouses, and structural solutions; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: Third annual report, Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor; title: Report of the Committee on the Pauper Laws of this commonwealth, Quincy Committee; title: Address of the association of working people, Wilson Pierson and George McFarlane; title: Existing evils and their remedy, Frances Wright; title: The rights of man to property! Thomas Skidmore; title: ^Sleep not longer, o Choctaws and Chickasaws, Tecumseh; title: Epilogue: outcomes; title: After the Civil War: the rise of labor and scientific charity; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: The Freedmen's Bureau, W.E.B. Du Bois; title: It is not right for me to live in poverty, Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka); title: The army of the discontented, Terence Powderly; title: Woman wants bread, not the ballot! Susan B. Anthony; title: We seek liberty for the slave, Albert Parsons; title: Charity organization and the Buffalo plan, S. Humphreys Gurteen; title: Epilogue: outcomes; title: The (un)progressive era; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: Public activities and investigations, Jane Addams; title: Child welfare standards: a test of democracy, Julia Lathrop; title: Industrial education for the negro, Booker T. Washington; title: Coxey and his aims, Henry Vincent; title: The social elements of the Indian problem, Arthur Parker (Gawaso Wanneh); title: The Socialist Party's appeal, Eugene Debs; title: Epilogue: outcomes; title: ^The great depression and the new deal era; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: The importance of the preservation of self-help and of the responsibilities of individual generosity as opposed to deteriorating effects of government appropriations, Herbert Hoover; title: Houses of hospitality, Dorothy Day; title: Civil works, Harry Hopkins; title: Redistribution of wealth, Huey Long; title: Immediate epic, Upton Sinclair; title: Social security, Frances Perkins; title: Workers' unemployment, old-age, and social insurance bill, Ernest Lundeen; title: Epilogue: outcomes; title: The war on poverty; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: Where do we go from here? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; title: The ballot or the bullet, Malcolm X; title: We give you a hand up, not a handout, Sargent Shriver; title: Welfare is a women's issue, Johnnie Tillman; title: The poorest of the poor and weakest of the weak, Cesar Chavez; title: The Alcatraz proclamation to the great white father and his people, Indians of all nations; title: ^Epilogue: outcomes; title: Dismantling the new deal and war on poverty: contemporary solutions; title: Prologue: social context and overview of solutions; title: Eliminating hunger in America, Physician Task Force on Hunger in America; title: Making homelessness go away: politics and policy, Douglas A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley; title: Living wage, live action, Robert Pollin; title: Labor leaders and allies call for repeal of Taft Hartley Act, Tony Mazzocchi, Bruce J. Klipple, Kay McVay, Ralph Nader, and Thomas Geoghegan; title: We demand fair trade, not free trade, Brian McWilliams; title: The hidden agenda: from group-specific to universal programs of reform; title: William Julius Wilson; title: America's debt to blacks, Randall Robinson; title: Faith-based charities work daily miracles, George W. Bush; title: Building assets to fight poverty, Michael Sherraden; title: We know the creation stories of our people, Carrie Dann; title: Epilogue: outcomes; title: Index.