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States of dependency : welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972

Tani, Karen M., author

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\"Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amidst the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on longstanding practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal welfare programs over the span of four decades and into communities around the nation, from American Indian reservations in the Southwest to agrarian stretches of Middle America, and to the metropolises of the industrial North. Drawing on a wealth of previously un-mined legal and archival sources, Karen Tani reveals how reformers attempted to build a more bureaucratic, centralized, and uniform public welfare system; how traditions of localism, federalism, and hostility towards the 'undeserving poor' affected their efforts; and how, along the way, more and more Americans came to speak of public income support in the powerful but limiting language of law and rights\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Public welfare Law and legislation United States History. / Social rights United States History. / Social security Law and legislation United States History. / HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
• ISBN: 9781107076846, 9781107434080

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
KF3720.T36 2016	1	BOOK	GENERAL