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"Welfare" provides a picture of the US government's evolving ideas about poverty and provision, along side powerful examples of the voices too often eclipsed in the public square - welfare recipients and their advocates, speaking about mothering, poverty, and human rights.
A documentary history of welfare policy in the U.S.

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"Welfare" provides a picture of the US government's evolving ideas about poverty and provision, along side powerful examples of the voices too often eclipsed in the public square - welfare recipients and their advocates, speaking about mothering, poverty, and human rights.
A documentary history of welfare policy in the U.S.
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Gwendolyn Mink (Editor) Gwendolyn Mink was Professor of Politics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Smith College. She is the author and editor of many books, most recently coauthor of Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective. Rickie Solinger (Editor) Rickie Solinger is a historian, the editor of a book series on reproductive justice, and a curator who organizes exhibitions associated with the themes of her books. Her books include Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade, The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law, and Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States. Frances Fox Piven (Foreword by) Frances Fox Piven is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate School, City University of New York. She is coeditor of Work, Welfare and Politics. Her other award-winning books include Regulating the Poor, Why Americans Don't Vote, and Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail (all with Richard Cloward).