The Resource States of dependency : welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972, Karen M. Tani
States of dependency : welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972, Karen M. Tani
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- Summary
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- "Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amidst the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on longstanding practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal welfare programs over the span of four decades and into communities around the nation, from American Indian reservations in the Southwest to agrarian stretches of Middle America, and to the metropolises of the industrial North. Drawing on a wealth of previously un-mined legal and archival sources, Karen Tani reveals how reformers attempted to build a more bureaucratic, centralized, and uniform public welfare system; how traditions of localism, federalism, and hostility towards the 'undeserving poor' affected their efforts; and how, along the way, more and more Americans came to speak of public income support in the powerful but limiting language of law and rights"--
- "As President John F. Kennedy declared the nation at a promising and perilous "New Frontier"-"a turning-point in history"--Newburgh, New York, seemed to belong in the proverbial dust heap with the rest of the detritus of the past. Once the headquarters for George Washington and the Continental Army, and later a hub for industry and transportation, Newburgh was falling into ruin. Its population was declining, its housing stock decaying, and its economy failing. City Manager Joseph McDowell Mitchell claimed to know exactly whom to blame: the city's hundreds of "chiselers and loafers," "freeload[ing]" migrants, "social parasites," and "illegitimate children." They burned through "taxpayer" dollars, he alleged, bringing in return only crime, blight, and immoral behavior. If Newburgh could simply reassert traditional, local controls over the poor, he insisted, the city would recover its former glory"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 427 pages, 8 pages of plates
- Contents
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- Part I. 1935 to 1949
- A New Deal for poor relief? : the modern American state and the endurance of the local
- Rights as an administrative tool : an appeal to state and local bureaucrats
- Rights as a "live, motivating principle" : the path toward legalism
- Claiming welfare rights : fair hearings, state-court claims, and a forgotten federal case
- Part II. 1950 to 1972
- States' rights against federal administrative enforcement : contesting dependency
- Rights against the state(s) : questioning rehabilitation, resisting restriction
- Welfare rights outside the courts : the administrative origins of poverty law
- Subjects of the Constitution, slaves to statutes : the judicial articulation of welfare rights
- Isbn
- 9781107434080
- Label
- States of dependency : welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972
- Title
- States of dependency
- Title remainder
- welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen M. Tani
- Subject
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- Public welfare -- Law and legislation
- Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Social rights
- Social rights -- United States -- History
- Social security -- Law and legislation
- Social security -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- United States
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- "Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amidst the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on longstanding practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal welfare programs over the span of four decades and into communities around the nation, from American Indian reservations in the Southwest to agrarian stretches of Middle America, and to the metropolises of the industrial North. Drawing on a wealth of previously un-mined legal and archival sources, Karen Tani reveals how reformers attempted to build a more bureaucratic, centralized, and uniform public welfare system; how traditions of localism, federalism, and hostility towards the 'undeserving poor' affected their efforts; and how, along the way, more and more Americans came to speak of public income support in the powerful but limiting language of law and rights"--
- "As President John F. Kennedy declared the nation at a promising and perilous "New Frontier"-"a turning-point in history"--Newburgh, New York, seemed to belong in the proverbial dust heap with the rest of the detritus of the past. Once the headquarters for George Washington and the Continental Army, and later a hub for industry and transportation, Newburgh was falling into ruin. Its population was declining, its housing stock decaying, and its economy failing. City Manager Joseph McDowell Mitchell claimed to know exactly whom to blame: the city's hundreds of "chiselers and loafers," "freeload[ing]" migrants, "social parasites," and "illegitimate children." They burned through "taxpayer" dollars, he alleged, bringing in return only crime, blight, and immoral behavior. If Newburgh could simply reassert traditional, local controls over the poor, he insisted, the city would recover its former glory"--
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- DLC
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- Tani, Karen M.,
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in legal history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Public welfare
- Social rights
- Social security
- HISTORY
- Public welfare
- Social rights
- Social security
- United States
- Label
- States of dependency : welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972, Karen M. Tani
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and index
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Contents
- Part I. 1935 to 1949 -- A New Deal for poor relief? : the modern American state and the endurance of the local -- Rights as an administrative tool : an appeal to state and local bureaucrats -- Rights as a "live, motivating principle" : the path toward legalism -- Claiming welfare rights : fair hearings, state-court claims, and a forgotten federal case -- Part II. 1950 to 1972 -- States' rights against federal administrative enforcement : contesting dependency -- Rights against the state(s) : questioning rehabilitation, resisting restriction -- Welfare rights outside the courts : the administrative origins of poverty law -- Subjects of the Constitution, slaves to statutes : the judicial articulation of welfare rights
- Control code
- 926106045
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 427 pages, 8 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781107434080
- Lccn
- 2015041408
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)926106045
- Label
- States of dependency : welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972, Karen M. Tani
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. 1935 to 1949 -- A New Deal for poor relief? : the modern American state and the endurance of the local -- Rights as an administrative tool : an appeal to state and local bureaucrats -- Rights as a "live, motivating principle" : the path toward legalism -- Claiming welfare rights : fair hearings, state-court claims, and a forgotten federal case -- Part II. 1950 to 1972 -- States' rights against federal administrative enforcement : contesting dependency -- Rights against the state(s) : questioning rehabilitation, resisting restriction -- Welfare rights outside the courts : the administrative origins of poverty law -- Subjects of the Constitution, slaves to statutes : the judicial articulation of welfare rights
- Control code
- 926106045
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiii, 427 pages, 8 pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781107434080
- Lccn
- 2015041408
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)926106045
Subject
- Public welfare -- Law and legislation
- Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- Social rights
- Social rights -- United States -- History
- Social security -- Law and legislation
- Social security -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
- United States
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- History
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