{"product_id":"citizens-and-paupers-chad-alan-goldberg-9780226300771","title":"Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare","description":"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. But as Chad Alan Goldberg here demonstrates, its legacy of disenfranchisement persisted. Indeed, from Reconstruction onward, welfare policies have remained a flashpoint for recurring struggles over the boundaries of citizenship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCitizens and Paupers\u003c\/i\u003e explores this contentious history by analyzing and comparing three major programs: the Freedmen's Bureau, the Works Progress Administration, and the present-day system of workfare that arose in the 1990s. Each of these overhauls of the welfare state created new groups of clients, new policies for aiding them, and new disputes over citizenship--conflicts that were entangled in racial politics and of urgent concern for social activists. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis combustible mix of racial tension and social reform continues to influence how we think about welfare, and \u003ci\u003eCitizens and Paupers\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable analysis of the roots of the debate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Alan Goldberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226300773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226300771\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.84w x 0.81d","brand":"Chad Alan Goldberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119454777599,"sku":"9780226300771","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c7c3875-089b-40a9-8891-5ededb7c1d77.jpg?v=1687409446","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/citizens-and-paupers-chad-alan-goldberg-9780226300771","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}