The Welfare Industry: Functionaries and Recipients in Public Aid

by David Street

Takes sociological stock of American poverty and the efforts at reform in the 1960s and early 70s, focusing on urban public assistance and on efforts to improve the system -- particularly efforts that were pursued in the name of poor persons themselves. 'A well-organized but varied collection of research efforts to support the argument that two processes -- bureaucratization and professionalization -- alter poverty. The authors, eminently qualified...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803912277
• ISBN13: 9780803912274
• Release Date: August 1979
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 187 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.