America Before Welfare

by Franklin Folsom

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726674
• ISBN13: 9780814726679
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"