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Replacing Welfare With Work In The Wpa: The Handicraft Project That Made Milwaukee Famous, 28th Annual Morris Fromkin Memorial Lecture, Lois Quinn, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project represents the largest public work program for unskilled women on welfare in Milwaukee County. Its success in providing meaningful employment to women with few obvious labor market skills was noted in the 1930s and attracts interest today as Wisconsin and other states initiate new “welfare to work” programs. For her lecture researcher Lois Quinn draws upon interviews with Mary Kellogg Rice (art director of the project from 1935 to 1942) and other project supervisors, published and unpublished project records, and studies of federal New Deal programs. Several project staff were available to discuss their work …