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The Battle for Welfare Rights : Politics and Poverty in Modern America
Overview
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.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9780812220254
- ISBN-10: 0812220250
- Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publish Date: December 2007
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
- Page Count: 312
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