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.
Poverty--History.--United States Social justice--History.--United States Social reformers--History.--United States Social movements--United States. Economic assistance, Domestic--History.--United States