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Book SynopsisIn America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.
Trade ReviewReaders of America's Welfare State will derive an excellent understanding of the complexity surrounding social welfare in the late 20th-century US. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Choice Useful for scholars and students both for its insights into the policy-making process and for its account of how American social policy arrived at the sorry state we find it in today. -- Jeffrey L. Davidson Contemporary Sociology A remarkably successful book... powerfully written and clearly of interest to scholars and policy experts alike. -- Ellis W. Hawley Labor History Berkowitz has gone behind the written statute and the official press release to find out who believed what and who did what to effect changes in the process and substantive aspects of welfare statism. This book is a worthy addition to the literature. -- Robert J. Lampman Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The Social Security Crisis
Chapter 2. Inventing Social Security, 1935
Chapter 3. The Triump of Social Security, 1936-1954
Chapter 4. The Day of Reckoning
Part II. The Frustrations of Welfare Reform
Chapter 5. Welfare's State, 1935-1967
Chapter 6. Welfare Restated, 1967-1988
Part III. The Mirage of National Health Insurance
Chapter 7. Medicare and Health Policy, 1935-1989
Part IV. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Long-Term Care of the Welfare State
A Note on the Sources
Index
