Three worlds of relief race, immigration, and the American welfare state from the Progressive Era to the New Deal

Summary: Three Worlds of Relief examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era ...

Record details

ISBN: 9781400842582 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1400842581 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780691152233
ISBN: 0691152233
ISBN: 9780691152240
ISBN: 0691152241
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Race, immigration, and the American welfare state -- Three worlds of race, labor, and politics -- Three worlds of relief -- The Mexican dependency problem -- No beggar spirit -- Deporting the unwelcome visitors -- Repatriating the unassimilable aliens -- A fair deal or a raw deal? -- The WPA and the (short-lived) triumph of nativism -- A new deal for the alien -- The boundaries of social citizenship.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.