The reluctant welfare state : engaging history to advance social work practice in contemporary society /
Bruce S. Jansson.
- Ninth edition
- Australia ; Boston, MA : Cengage, c2019.
- xvi, 608 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Empowerment series Brooks/Cole empowerment series .
Becoming a policy advocate for vulnerable populations -- The symbiotic and uneasy relationship: clients, social workers, and the welfare state -- Making the American welfare state more human-past, present, and future Social policy in a developing nation -- Social policy during a transition to an industrial nation -- Fashioning a new society in the wilderness -- Social policy in a relatively liberal era -- Social policy in a period of conservative backlash -- The period of gridlock and extreme inequality -- Social policy during a transition to an industrial nation -- Social welfare polity in the 19th century: 1789-1902 -- Social reform in the Progressive Era -- Social policy in a relatively liberal era -- Social policy to address the worst economic catastrophe in U.S. history -- The era of federal social services: The new frontier and the Great Society -- The paradoxical era: 1968-1980 -- Social policy in the period of conservative backlash -- The conservative counterrevolution in the era of Reagan and G.H.W. Bush -- The period of gridlock and extreme inequality -- Reluctance illustrated: Policy uncertainty during the presidency of Bill Clinton -- George W. Bush's quest for realignment -- Would President Barack Obama reverse the cycle of history? -- President Donald Trump: Populist or conservative? -- Why has the American welfare state been reluctant-and what can we do about it?
9781337565639 (hardback)
2017962370
Public welfare--History--United States United States--Social policy United States--Social conditions