Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare

by Chad Alan Goldberg (Author)

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  2008

  $33.03

  There was a time when America's poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights - a predicament that forced them to forfeit their citizenship in exchange for economic relief. Over time, however, our welfare system improved dramatically. This work demonstrates that its legacy of disenfranchisement persisted.