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A documentary history of welfare policy in the U.S.

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"The debate over welfare suffers from lack of historical perspective. Now come Mink and Solinger to transform our understanding with a clearly articulated, carefully organized, and judiciously selected collection of key sources and illustrative documents that illuminates the past and present of aid to poor women and their children. Essential for classroom use, this book also belongs on the desks of policy makers and activists alike." -- Eileen Boris,Hull Professor of Womens Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
"A stirringly dramatic narrative of welfare policy history. Through the documents they select, Mink and Solinger bring to life an immensely important human drama, and they do so in a way that paves a path to a higher awareness of the deeply ingrained biases of gender, race, and class that operate in welfare policy." * Social Service Review *

Welfare A Documentary History Of U.S. Policy And

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    A Paperback / softback by Gwendolyn Mink, Rickie Solinger, Frances Fox Piven

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      Publisher New York University Press
      Published 1 September 2003
      ISBN-13 9780814756546
      978-0814756546
      ISBN-10 0814756549
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      Social welfare, social policy and social services

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A documentary history of welfare policy in the U.S.

      Trade Review
      "The debate over welfare suffers from lack of historical perspective. Now come Mink and Solinger to transform our understanding with a clearly articulated, carefully organized, and judiciously selected collection of key sources and illustrative documents that illuminates the past and present of aid to poor women and their children. Essential for classroom use, this book also belongs on the desks of policy makers and activists alike." -- Eileen Boris,Hull Professor of Womens Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
      "A stirringly dramatic narrative of welfare policy history. Through the documents they select, Mink and Solinger bring to life an immensely important human drama, and they do so in a way that paves a path to a higher awareness of the deeply ingrained biases of gender, race, and class that operate in welfare policy." * Social Service Review *

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