The Battle for Welfare Rights
Politics and Poverty in Modern America

 

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The Battle for Welfare Rights
Politics and Poverty in Modern America

by Felicia Kornbluh (Author)

 

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ISBN: 9780812240054

 

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Chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. This work tells the story of the National Welfare Rights Organization, the largest membership organization of low-income people in US history. It offers insight into women's activism, poverty policy, civil rights, urban politics, law, and consumerism.


"The Battle for Welfare Rights" chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating story of the National Welfare Rights Organization, the largest membership organization of low-income people in U.S. history. Setting that story in the context of its turbulent times, the 1960s and early 1970s, historian Felicia Kornbluh shows how closely tied that story was to changes in mainstream politics, both nationally and locally in New York City. "The Battle for Welfare Rights" offers new insight into women's activism, poverty policy, civil rights, urban politics, law, consumerism, social work, and the rise of modern conservatism. It tells, for the first time, the complete story of a movement that profoundly affected the meaning of citizenship and the social contract in the United States.


 

ISBN 812240057
ISBN13 9780812240054
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Format Hardback
Publication date 00/05/2007
Pages 312
Weight (grammes) 581
Published in United States
Height (mm) 229
Width (mm) 152

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