Battle for Welfare Rights Politics and Poverty in Modern America

Name: Battle for Welfare Rights Politics and Poverty in Modern America
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ISBN: 9780812220254

ISBN-10: 0812220250

ISBN-13: 9780812220254

Edition: 2007

Authors: Felicia Kornbluh

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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,…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Inventing Welfare Rights



Citizens of the Affluent Society



Legal Civil Disobedience



On a Collision Course



Give Us Credit for Being American



Nixon, Moynihan, and Real Live Welfare Moms



End of an Era


Conclusion



List of Oral History Interviews


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments