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Social solutions to poverty : America's struggle to build a just society /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Myers-Lipton, Scott J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2006]
Subjects:
Poverty > United States > History.
Social justice > United States > History.
Social reformers > United States > History.
Social movements > United States.
Economic assistance, Domestic > United States > History.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Native American contributions to egalitarianism
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • On cannibals, Michel de Montaigne
  • Curious dialogues, Louis Armand de Lom D'Arce Lahontan
  • Distresses of a frontier man, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
  • Agrarian justice, Thomas Paine
  • Message from the Western Indians to the commisioners of the United States, the General Council of Indians at Miami Rapids
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • The early republic and Pre-Civil War America: moral cures, poorhouses, and structural solutions
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • Third annual report, Boston Society for the Moral and Religious Instruction of the Poor
  • Report of the Committee on the Pauper Laws of this commonwealth, Quincy Committee
  • Address of the association of working people, Wilson Pierson and George McFarlane
  • Existing evils and their remedy, Frances Wright
  • The rights of man to property! Thomas Skidmore
  • Sleep not longer, o Choctaws and Chickasaws, Tecumseh
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • After the Civil War: the rise of labor and scientific charity
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • The Freedmen's Bureau, W.E.B. Du Bois
  • It is not right for me to live in poverty, Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotanka)
  • The army of the discontented, Terence Powderly
  • Woman wants bread, not the ballot! Susan B. Anthony
  • We seek liberty for the slave, Albert Parsons
  • Charity organization and the Buffalo plan, S. Humphreys Gurteen
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • The (un)progressive era
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • Public activities and investigations, Jane Addams
  • Child welfare standards: a test of democracy, Julia Lathrop
  • Industrial education for the negro, Booker T. Washington
  • Coxey and his aims, Henry Vincent
  • The social elements of the Indian problem, Arthur Parker (Gawaso Wanneh)
  • The Socialist Party's appeal, Eugene Debs
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • The great depression and the new deal era
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • The importance of the preservation of self-help and of the responsibilities of individual generosity as opposed to deteriorating effects of government appropriations, Herbert Hoover
  • Houses of hospitality, Dorothy Day
  • Civil works, Harry Hopkins
  • Redistribution of wealth, Huey Long
  • Immediate epic, Upton Sinclair
  • Social security, Frances Perkins
  • Workers' unemployment, old-age, and social insurance bill, Ernest Lundeen
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • The war on poverty
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • Where do we go from here? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The ballot or the bullet, Malcolm X
  • We give you a hand up, not a handout, Sargent Shriver
  • Welfare is a women's issue, Johnnie Tillman
  • The poorest of the poor and weakest of the weak, Cesar Chavez
  • The Alcatraz proclamation to the great white father and his people, Indians of all nations
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • Dismantling the new deal and war on poverty: contemporary solutions
  • Prologue: social context and overview of solutions
  • Eliminating hunger in America, Physician Task Force on Hunger in America
  • Making homelessness go away: politics and policy, Douglas A. Timmer, D. Stanley Eitzen, and Kathryn D. Talley
  • Living wage, live action, Robert Pollin
  • Labor leaders and allies call for repeal of Taft Hartley Act, Tony Mazzocchi, Bruce J. Klipple, Kay McVay, Ralph Nader, and Thomas Geoghegan
  • We demand fair trade, not free trade, Brian McWilliams
  • The hidden agenda: from group-specific to universal programs of reform
  • William Julius Wilson
  • America's debt to blacks, Randall Robinson
  • Faith-based charities work daily miracles, George W. Bush
  • Building assets to fight poverty, Michael Sherraden
  • We know the creation stories of our people, Carrie Dann
  • Epilogue: outcomes
  • Index.