Series:

The American Social Experience

1 primary work

Book 22

Cover of In the Web of Class

In the Web of Class

by Eric C. Schneider

Published 1 March 1992

"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston..[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency."
—Choice"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class."
—Michael B. Katz,University of Pennsylvania