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.
- ISBN10 0814728898
- ISBN13 9780814728895
- Publish Date 1 October 1996
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 23 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New York University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 574
- Language English