Rethinking the Welfare Rights Movement

by Premilla Nadasen

Book Overview

The welfare rights movement was an interracial protest movement of poor women on AFDC who demanded reform of welfare policy, greater respect and dignity, and financial support to properly raise and care for their children. In short, they pushed for a right to welfare. Lasting from the early 1960s to the mid 1970s, the welfare rights movement crossed political boundaries, fighting simultaneously for women's rights, economic justice, and black women's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415800862
• ISBN13: 9780415800860
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"