{"product_id":"building-the-invisible-orphanage-9780674005549","title":"Building the Invisible Orphanage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare in America. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe virtue of Crenson's book is that it is a close examination of the sea change that brought the welfare system into existence in the first place. -- David Warsh * Boston Globe *\u003cbr\u003eA valuable book, sure to leave its mark as an important and scholarly examination of the roots of American social policy, not without implication for today. -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Invisible Orphanage\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary piece of scholarship. It is based on prodigious research and will doubtless alter debates about the origins and development of the American welfare state. It offers a stiff challenge to prevailing perspectives on the history of welfare in the United States. It will be roundly debated and future scholars will have to reckon with its findings. -- Robert C. Lieberman, Columbia University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments   Introduction    The Decline of the Orphanage and the Invention of Welfare   The Institutional Inclination   Two Dimensions of Institutional Change   Institutional Self-Doubt and Internal Reform   From Orphanage to Home   The Orphanage Reaches Outward   \"The Unwalled Institution of the State\"   The Perils of Placing Out   \"The Experiment of Having No Home\"   Mobilizing for Mothers' Pensions   Religious Wars    Conclusion: An End to the Orphanage   Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403513438551,"sku":"9780674005549","price":33.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674005549.jpg?v=1730483692","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/building-the-invisible-orphanage-9780674005549","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}