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Welfare State History: The Limits of the New

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GordonLinda, Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare, 1890–1935 (New York: Free Press, 1994). Pp. x, 433. $22.95.

QuadagnoJill, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). Pp. viii, 254. $24.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

Andrew J. Polsky
Affiliation:
Hunter College, CUNY

Abstract

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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1995

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Notes

1. For a critical review of the literature, see Skocpol, Theda, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, Mass., 1992), Introduction.Google Scholar

2. Gordon, Linda, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence (New York, 1988, 1989).Google Scholar

3. I develop this argument more fully in my own work. See Polsky, Andrew J., The Rise of the Therapeutic State (Princeton, 1991), esp. chaps. 2–3.Google Scholar

4. Ibid., 150ff.

5. Quadagno, Jill, The Transformation of Old Age Security: Class and Politics in the American Welfare State (Chicago, 1988).Google Scholar

6. On Title XX, see Gilbert, Neil, “The Transformation of Social Services,” Social Service Review 51 (1977): 624–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Schram, Sanford F., “Politics, Professionalism, and the Changing Federalism,” Social Service Review 55 (1981): 7892.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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