States of Dependency - Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972

Informationen zum Autor Karen Tani is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley, she received her J.D. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania and held prestigious fellowships at New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in leading law journals, including the Law and History Review and the Yale Law Journal, and has won awards from the American Society for Legal History, the Hellman Foundation, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She coedits the Legal History Blog, the field's leading source for news and announcements. Klappentext This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty. Zusammenfassung States of Dependency recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty. This history explains how public welfare became bureaucratized! centralized! and professionalized; how welfare rights claims materialized; and why! nonetheless! American citizenship does not guarantee a minimally adequate income. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I: Introduction; 1. A new deal for poor relief? The modern American state and the endurance of the local; 2. An 'appeal to attitude': rights as an administrative tool; 3. Human needs and legal rights: competing visions of governance in 1940s welfare administration; 4. Claiming welfare rights: fair hearings, state-court claims, and a forgotten federal case; Part II: Introduction; 5. Dependency and its discontents: the fractious politics of federal grants; 6. States' rights meet welfare rights: federal administrative enforcement in the age of rehabilitation and resistance; 7. Unsuitable homes, undeserving fathers, and the administrative origins of poverty law; 8. Subjects of the constitution, slaves to statutes: the judicial articulation of welfare rights; Conclusion; Appendix. Figures and tables....

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• Authors: Karen M. Tani, Karen M. (University of California Tani, Tani Karen M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2016
• EAN: 9781107076846
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07684-6
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Studies in Legal History (Hard; Studies in Legal History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, 20th Century, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Archaeology, Legal History, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology