States of Dependency

Introduction; Part I: Introduction; 1. A new deal for poor relief? The modern American state and the endurance of the local; 2. An 'appeal to attitude': rights as an administrative tool; 3. Human needs and legal rights: competing visions of governance in 1940s welfare administration; 4. Claiming welfare rights: fair hearings, state-court claims, and a forgotten federal case; Part II: Introduction; 5. Dependency and its discontents: the fractious politics of federal grants; 6. States' rights meet welfare rights: federal administrative enforcement in the age of rehabilitation and resistance; 7. Unsuitable homes, undeserving fathers, and the administrative origins of poverty law; 8. Subjects of the constitution, slaves to statutes: the judicial articulation of welfare rights; Conclusion; Appendix. Figures and tables.

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• História social e cultural
• História das Américas
• Historia do direito
• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000