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Citizens and paupers : relief, rights, and race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare
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Citizens and paupers : relief, rights, and race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare / Chad Alan Goldberg.
ISBN
9780226300764 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226300765 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226300771 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226300773 (alk. paper)
Published
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Physical Description
xvi, 366 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 23, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.
Contents
Paupers or citizens? struggles over the status and rights of welfare state claimants
"The 'pauper slavery' of the poorhouse" : the Freedmen's Bureau, 1865-1872
An honorable alternative to poor relief : Civil War veterans' pensions, 1862-1890
"They are just 'reliefers' and have no rights" : the Works Progress Administration, 1935-1942
"A different class from the ordinary relief case" : old-age insurance, 1935-1949
"Work with no rights and no pay equals slavery" : workfare in New York City, 1993-2001
Respectable aid for the working poor : the earned income tax credit, 1975-2001
Conclusion: Relief, rights, and race in the development of the welfare state.
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