The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America - Couverture souple

Kornbluh, Felicia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0812220250 ISBN 13 : 9780812220254

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007

Synopsis

The Battle for Welfare Rights chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves. It tells the fascinating story of the National Welfare Rights Organization, the largest membership organization of low-income people in U.S. history. Setting that story in the context of its turbulent times, the 1960s and early 1970s, historian Felicia Kornbluh shows how closely tied that story was to changes in mainstream politics, both nationally and locally in New York City. The Battle for Welfare Rights offers new insight into women's activism, poverty policy, civil rights, urban politics, law, consumerism, social work, and the rise of modern conservatism. It tells, for the first time, the complete story of a movement that profoundly affected the meaning of citizenship and the social contract in the United States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Felicia Kornbluh is Associate Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Vermont. She has written for many publications, including The Nation, Feminist Studies, Los Angeles Times, Women's Review of Books, Journal of American History, and In These Times. Cofounder of Historians for Social Justice, she is a long-standing member of the Women's Committee of 100, an advocacy organization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812220250
• ISBN 13: 9780812220254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
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• Personne responsable: non disponible