Building the invisible orphanage : a prehistory of the American welfare system /

This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management. New arrangemen...

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Main Author: Crenson, Matthew A., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central