Delivering Aid - Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West (Paperback)

Delivering Aid examines local welfare practices, policies, and debates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a diverse collection of western communities including Protestant cash-crop homesteaders, Catholic Hispanic subsistence farmers, miners in a dying mining center, residents in a dominant regional city, Native Americans on an Indian reservation, and farmers and workers in a stable mixed economy. Krainz investigates how communities used poor relief, mothers' pensions, blind benefits, county hospitals, and poor farms, as well as explains the roles that private charities played in sustaining needy residents. Delivering Aid challenges existing historical interpretations of the development of America's welfare state. Most scholars argue that the Progressive Era was a major transformation in welfare practices due to new theories about poverty and charity. Yet drawing on evidence from local county pauper books, Krainz concludes that by focusing on implementation welfare practices show little change. Still, assistance varied widely since local conditions--settlement patterns, economic conditions, environmental factors, religious practices, existing relief policies, and decisions by local residents--shaped each community's welfare strategies and were far more important in determining relief practices than were new ideas concerning poverty.

General

Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Thomas Krainz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	339
ISBN-13:	978-0-8263-3026-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Pressure groups & lobbying Promotions
LSN:	0-8263-3026-6
Barcode:	9780826330260

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