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Declarations Of Dependency: The Civic Republican Tradition In U.S. Poverty Policy. Alan F. Zundel
Declarations Of Dependency: The Civic Republican Tradition In U.S. Poverty Policy. Alan F. Zundel
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Book note for Alan E Zundel, Declarations of Dependency: The Civic Republican Tradition in U. S. Poverty Policy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. $16.95 papercover.
The Historical Uniqueness Of The Clinton Welfare Reforms: A New Level Of Social Misery?, Larry Patriquin
The Historical Uniqueness Of The Clinton Welfare Reforms: A New Level Of Social Misery?, Larry Patriquin
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
This essay argues that the 1996 reforms to the American welfare state have no historical precedent. They are not a return to "the poorhouse era" and are radically distinct from Great Britain's new poor law of 1834, to which they are often compared. America is the first advanced capitalist country to jettison a significant element of its welfare state and, as such, is moving into waters that are uncharted and dangerous.