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America Before Welfare
Franklin Folsom
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Description for America Before Welfare
paperback. Amidst the current debates on the future of welfare, one voice has been conspicuously absent: that of the unemployed and underprivileged. This book addresses the work of history and an anecdotal window onto America's past, in the days before FDR's New Deal. Num Pages: 574 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFA; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 748.
Amidst the current debates on the future of welfare, one voice has been conspicuously absent: that of the unemployed and underprivileged. The result of almost a half-century of research, America Before Welfare traces the leadership and activities of the unemployed from industrialization to the outbreak of World War II. It is at once a profound work of history and an anecdotal window onto America's past, in the days before FDR's New Deal.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
574
Condition
New
Number of Pages
574
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814726679
SKU
V9780814726679
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Ref
99-15
About Franklin Folsom
Described by the Village Voice as,"an autodidact in the finest American tradition," the late Franklin Folsom was a journalist, editor, and activist, as well as the author of numerous books.
Reviews for America Before Welfare
"Will appeal to all interested in U.S. history . . . . a splendid example of `history from the bottom up.'"
New York Review of Books
"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with ... Read more
New York Review of Books
"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with ... Read more