Citizens and Paupers - Relief, Rights, and Race, From the Freedmen''s Bureau to Workfare

Zusammenfassung There was a time when America's poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights - a predicament that forced them to forfeit their citizenship in exchange for economic relief. Over time, however, our welfare system improved dramatically. This work demonstrates that its legacy of disenfranchisement persisted.

Product details

• Authors: Chad Alan Goldberg, Goldberg Chad Alan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2007
• EAN: 9780226300764
• ISBN: 978-0-226-30076-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Poverty & unemployment, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Social and ethical issues, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Poverty and precarity