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The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America

by Felicia Kornbluh

Series: Politics and Culture in Modern America (2007)

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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, 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.… (more)

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362.5Social sciences › Social problems & social services › Social problems of & services to groups of people › Poor (from social service perspectives)

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HV91.K65Social sciences › Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology › Social pathology. Social and public welfare. › By region or country

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