Screen LibrarySocial solutions to poverty：America's struggle to build a just society
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Paradigm Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Boulder |
| Publication Dates: | c2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Great Barrington books |
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| Carrier Form: | xiv, 345 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781594512100 (hc : alk. paper) 1594512108 (hc : alk. paper) 9781594512117 (pb : alk. paper) 1594512116 (pb : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F171 |
| CLC: | F171.26 |
| Call Number: | F171.26/M996 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-330) and index. 1. Native American contributions to egalitarianism. On cannibals / Michel de Montaigne ; Curious dialogues / Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan ; Distresses of a frontier man / J. Hector St. John de Crèvocoeur ; Agrarian justice / Thomas Paine ; Message from the western Indians to the commissioners of the United States / The General Council of Indians at Miami Rapids -- 2. The early Republic and pre-Civil War America : moral cures, poorhouses, and structural 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 -- 3. After the Civil War : the rise of labor and scientific charity. The Freedman'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 / Terrence 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 -- 4. The (un)Progressive Era. 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 -- 5. The Great Depression and the New Deal era. 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 / Francis Perkins ; Workers' unemployment, old-age, and social insurance bill / Ernest Lundeen -- 6. The war on poverty. Where do we go from here? / 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 Tillmon ; The poorest of the poor and the weakest of the weak / Cesar Chavez ; The Alcatraz proclamation to the Great White Father and his people / Indians of All Nations -- 7. Dismantling the New Deal and war on poverty : contemporary 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 the Taft-Hartley Act / Tony Mazzocchi ... [et al.] ; 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 Christian charities work daily miracles / George W. Bush -- Building assets to fight poverty / Michael Sherraden ; We know the creation stories of our people / Carrie Dann. |