Author: Robert Cassie WATERSTONPublisher:
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Discourses, addresses and memoir
Author: Robert Cassie WaterstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Christian Examiner and Theological Review
Author: In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse
Author: Michael B. KatzPublisher: Perseus (for Hbg)
ISBN: 0465032109
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
With welfare reform a burning political issue, this special anniversary edition of the classic history of welfare in America has been revised and updated to include the latest bipartisan debates on how to "end welfare as we know it". With an informative new Introduction and a new concluding chapter, this timely edition makes for important reading. Index.
Poverty in America
Author: Catherine ReefPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108117
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Presents an overview of the history of poverty in America and includes excerpts from primary source documents, short biographies of influential people, and more.
Galbraith, Harrington, Heilbroner
Author: Loren J. OkroiPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400859336
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In a remarkably lucid and flowing style, Loren Okroi analyzes the ideas of three leading reformer-critics in the United States and places their main arguments in the context of the economic, social, and political history of postwar America. In so doing, he provides not only a skillful introduction to American social thought since the 1950s but also a wide-ranging examination of the contemporary failures of American liberal ideology. As he explicates the works of these three men--all of whom moved easily between the academic world and the arenas of politics, government, or journalism--it becomes clear that present policy debates have not even begun to resolve the dilemmas their writings have exposed. Millions of readers know J. K. Galbraith, the renowned Harvard economist and social theorist who developed the concept of the "New Industrial State"; Michael Harrington, the de facto leader of the American socialist movement who revealed the existence of the "other America"; and Robert Heilbroner, the incisive economic thinker who questioned the naive optimism of Americans even before it significantly eroded in the mid-1970s. In this book they emerge as individuals, as thinkers, and as part of a larger picture of American efforts to reconcile democratic values and humane social goals with modern corporate capitalism. The study begins with a portrait of the U.S. economy and society at the end of the Civil War and discusses the momentous changes brought about by the rapid industrialization that followed. The central portion revolves around Galbraith, Harrington, and Heilbroner and explores their contributions to the intellectual and political discourse on key issues confronting America in the decades after 1945: the evolutionary trajectory of managerial capitalism; the persistence of poverty and class divisions; the expansion of the welfare state and the public sector in general; and the assault on welfare capitalism by the New Right in the 1980s. The concluding chapter examines the causes and consequences of the fervent adherence of Americans to liberal ideology, the origins and philosophical bases of that set of beliefs, and its future prospects. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A Discourse Preached at the Ordination of Mr. Robert C. Waterston, as a Minister at Large, Nov. 24, 1839
Author: Henry WarePublisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
Author: Paul S. BOYERPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674028627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Includes chapters on moral reform, the YMCA, Sunday Schools, and parks and playgrounds.
The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Discovery of Poverty in the United States
Author: Robert Hamlett BremnerPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412836557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In contrast to cultures that have accepted poverty as inevitable, Americans have tended to regard it as an abnormal condition, one that may be alleviated by a combination of social reform, hard work, and spiritual discipline. In a dispassionate way, Bremner was the first to critically examine the origins and transformations of American attitudes toward poverty and reform.
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