TY - BOOK AU - Lash,Don TI - When the welfare people come: race and class in the US child protection system SN - 9781608467433 AV - HV741 .L377 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Chicago : , Minneapolis : PB - Haymarket Books, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution [Distributor] KW - Child Welfare KW - Racism N2 - Annotation; In this look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, 'When the Welfare People Come' exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to foster care and mandated services, arguing that it constitutes a mechanism of control exerted over poor and working class parents and children ER -