The welfare debate / Greg M. Shaw.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Historical guides to controversial issues in America.
Main Author: Shaw, Greg M.
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Series:Historical guides to controversial issues in America.
Subjects:
Public welfare > United States.
United States > Social policy > History.
Physical Description:xix, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The early American roots of welfare
  • Controlling the poor in nineteenth-century America
  • From mothers' pensions to a troubled aid to dependent children program
  • The rise and fall of the war on poverty
  • The 1970s and 1980s--backlash and an emerging neoconservative consensus
  • The end of welfare entitlement
  • A new world of welfare
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix 1: Time line of significant developments in American social welfare provision
  • Appendix 2: Annotated list of further readings
  • Bibliography
  • Index.