Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Myers-Lipton, Scott J.

Social solutions to poverty : America's struggle to build a just society / Scott J. Myers-Lipton; edited with contributions by Scott J. Myers-Lipton, forward by Charles Lemert. - Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2006. - xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Great Barrington books .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330) and index.

Native American contributions to egalitarianism -- The early republic and antebellum America : moral cures, poorhouses, and structural solutions -- After the Civil War : the rise of labor and scientific charity -- The (Un)Progressive Era -- The Great Depression and the New Deal era -- The war on poverty -- Dismantling the new deal and war on poverty : contemporary solutions.

ISBN: 9781594512100 (hc : alk. paper) 1594512108 (hc : alk. paper) 9781594512117 (pb : alk. paper) 1594512116 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006012368

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Poverty--History.--United States
Social justice--History.--United States
Social reformers--History.--United States
Social movements--United States.
Economic assistance, Domestic--History.--United States

LC Class. No.: HC110.P6 / M94 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 362.5/52