Author: Reuel Clyde WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Research Memorandum on Social Aspects of Relief Policies in the Depression
Author: Reuel Clyde WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Three Worlds of Relief
Author: Cybelle FoxPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400842581
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth century to the dark days of the Depression, Cybelle Fox finds that, despite rampant nativism, European immigrants received generous access to social welfare programs. The communities in which they lived invested heavily in relief. Social workers protected them from snooping immigration agents, and ensured that noncitizenship and illegal status did not prevent them from receiving the assistance they needed. But that same helping hand was not extended to Mexicans and blacks. Fox reveals, for example, how blacks were relegated to racist and degrading public assistance programs, while Mexicans who asked for assistance were deported with the help of the very social workers they turned to for aid. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Fox paints a riveting portrait of how race, labor, and politics combined to create three starkly different worlds of relief. She debunks the myth that white America's immigrant ancestors pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, unlike immigrants and minorities today. Three Worlds of Relief challenges us to reconsider not only the historical record but also the implications of our past on contemporary debates about race, immigration, and the American welfare state.
Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: America’s Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century
Author: James T. PattersonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674266412
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This new edition of Patterson's widely used book carries the story of battles over poverty and social welfare through what the author calls the "amazing 1990s," those years of extraordinary performance of the economy. He explores a range of issues arising from the economic phenomenon--increasing inequality and demands for use of an improved poverty definition. He focuses the story on the impact of the highly controversial welfare reform of 1996, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democratic President Clinton, despite the laments of anguished liberals.
To Work and To Wed
Author: Lois ScharfPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal Advoca
Author: Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617033773
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The biography of the first southern woman to hold a top-ranking post in a federal administration
Women of the Depression
Author: Julia Kirk BlackwelderPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890968642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Even before the Depression, unemployment, low wages, substandard housing, and poor health plagued many women in what was then one of America's poorest cities--San Antonio. Divided by tradition, prejudice, or law into three distinct communities of Mexican Americans, Anglos, and African Americans, San Antonio women faced hardships based on their personal economic circumstances as well as their identification with a particular racial or ethnic group. Women of the Depression, first published in 1984, presents a unique study of life in a city whose society more nearly reflected divisions by the concept of caste rather than class. Caste was conferred by identification with a particular ethnic or racial group, and it defined nearly every aspect of women's lives. Historian Julia Kirk Blackwelder shows that Depression-era San Antonio, with its majority Mexican American population, its heavy dependence on tourism and light industry, and its domination by an Anglo elite, suffered differently as a whole than other American cities. Loss of migrant agricultural work drove thousands of Mexican Americans into the barrios on the west side of San Antonio, and with the intense repatriation fervor of the 1930s, the fear of deportation inhibited many Mexican Americans from seeking public or private aid. The author combines excerpts from personal letters, diaries, and interviews with government statistics to present a collective view of discrimination and culture and the strength of both in the face of crisis.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Author: