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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.
Price: $39.00
Pages: 574
Publisher: NYU Press
Imprint: NYU Press
Publication Date:
01 October 1996
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780814726679
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
HISTORY / United States / General
"Will appeal to all interested in U.S. history . . . . a splendid example of `history from the bottom up.'"
"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style."
— Howard Zinn,author of A People's History of The United States
"Lively and compelling."
— Eric Foner,Columbia University
"Gracefully written and assiduously researched."
"A heroic and even optimistic history, a narrative of the struggles of oppressed people and their progressive allies against social injustice."
"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style."
— Howard Zinn,author of A People's History of The United States
"Lively and compelling."
— Eric Foner,Columbia University
"Gracefully written and assiduously researched."
"A heroic and even optimistic history, a narrative of the struggles of oppressed people and their progressive allies against social injustice."