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04216aam a2200421 i 4500 001 6878472A8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161006010101 008 151021s2016 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015041408 020 $a 1107434084 020 $a 9781107434080 020 $a 1107076846 020 $a 9781107076846 035 $a (OCoLC)926106045 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d TFW $d CLU $d COO $d PUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a KF3720 T36 2016 100 1 $a Tani, Karen M., $e author. 245 10 $a States of dependency : $b welfare, rights, and American governance, 1935-1972 / $c Karen M. Tani. 264 1 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xiii, 427 pages, 8 pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in legal history 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-412) and index. 505 0 $a Part I. 1935 to 1949 -- A New Deal for poor relief? : the modern American state and the endurance of the local -- Rights as an administrative tool : an appeal to state and local bureaucrats -- Rights as a "live, motivating principle" : the path toward legalism -- Claiming welfare rights : fair hearings, state-court claims, and a forgotten federal case -- Part II. 1950 to 1972 -- States' rights against federal administrative enforcement : contesting dependency -- Rights against the state(s) : questioning rehabilitation, resisting restriction -- Welfare rights outside the courts : the administrative origins of poverty law -- Subjects of the Constitution, slaves to statutes : the judicial articulation of welfare rights. 520 $a "Who bears responsibility for the poor, and who may exercise the power that comes with that responsibility? Amidst the Great Depression, American reformers answered this question in new ways, with profound effects on longstanding practices of governance and entrenched understandings of citizenship. States of Dependency traces New Deal welfare programs over the span of four decades and into communities around the nation, from American Indian reservations in the Southwest to agrarian stretches of Middle America, and to the metropolises of the industrial North. Drawing on a wealth of previously un-mined legal and archival sources, Karen Tani reveals how reformers attempted to build a more bureaucratic, centralized, and uniform public welfare system; how traditions of localism, federalism, and hostility towards the 'undeserving poor' affected their efforts; and how, along the way, more and more Americans came to speak of public income support in the powerful but limiting language of law and rights"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "As President John F. Kennedy declared the nation at a promising and perilous "New Frontier"-"a turning-point in history"--Newburgh, New York, seemed to belong in the proverbial dust heap with the rest of the detritus of the past. Once the headquarters for George Washington and the Continental Army, and later a hub for industry and transportation, Newburgh was falling into ruin. Its population was declining, its housing stock decaying, and its economy failing. City Manager Joseph McDowell Mitchell claimed to know exactly whom to blame: the city's hundreds of "chiselers and loafers," "freeload[ing]" migrants, "social parasites," and "illegitimate children." They burned through "taxpayer" dollars, he alleged, bringing in return only crime, blight, and immoral behavior. If Newburgh could simply reassert traditional, local controls over the poor, he insisted, the city would recover its former glory"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Public welfare $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social rights $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Social security $x History. $z United States $x History. 830 0 $a Studies in legal history. 856 42 $3 Cover image $u http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/76846/cover/9781107076846.jpg 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231021020009.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210105035910.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6878472A8B8A11E6A6C758ADDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search