With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare

by Donald T. Critchlow

2020-12-29 22:26:16

Although welfare reform is currently the government''s top priority, most discussions about the public''s responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both... Read more
Although welfare reform is currently the government''s top priority, most discussions about the public''s responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in this country and abroad, to balance the efforts of private charity and public welfare. The prominent historians in this collection demonstrate how solutions to poverty are functions of culture, religion, and politics, and how social provisions for the poor have evolved across the centuries. Less

Book Details

File size9 X 5.78 X 0.63 in
Print pages276
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date April 2, 1998
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780847689705
Donald T. Critchlow is Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Moguls, Film Stars, and Big Business Remade American Politics to be pub...

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