✦ LIBER ✦
Michael B. Katz. In the shadow of the poorhouse: A social history of welfare in America. New York: Basic Books, 1986. 338 pp. $22.95 (cloth) (Reviewed by Molly Ladd-Taylor)
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
s history of American welfare is a powerful argument for the transformation of the welfare system. Katz examines welfare practices from colonial times to the present in order to explain the persistence of America's "incoherent and irrational