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From poor law to welfare state: a history of social welfare in America

Title
  1. From poor law to welfare state: a history of social welfare in America, by Walter I. Trattner.
Published by
  1. New York, Free Press [1974]
Author
  1. Trattner, Walter I.

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Description
  1. xii, 276 pages; 21 cm
Summary
  1. Monograph giving a historical review of social policy trends in the USA with regard to public welfare and social assistance - includes bibliographys.
Subject
  1. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
  2. Public welfare > United States > History
  3. Social service > United States > History
  4. Social Welfare > history
  5. Public welfare
  6. Social service
  7. Geschichte
  8. Sozialpolitik
  9. history
  10. social policy
  11. trend
  12. welfare
  13. social assistance
  14. histoire
  15. politique sociale
  16. tendance
  17. assistance sociale
  18. historia
  19. política social
  20. tendencia
  21. asistencia social
  22. United States
  23. USA
  24. USA
  25. Etats-Unis
  26. Estados Unidos
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. bibliography.
  3. bibliographie.
  4. bibliografía.
Contents
  1. Preface -- The background -- Colonial America -- The era of the American Revolution -- The trend toward indoor relief -- Scientific charity -- Child welfare -- The public health movement -- The settlement house movement -- The mental health movement -- Renaissance of public welfare -- The quest for professionalization -- Social work and welfare in the 1920s -- Depression and a New Deal -- The postwar decades.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographies.