{"product_id":"this-business-of-relief-elna-c-green-9780820352633","title":"This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe South has been largely overlooked in the debates prompted by the wave of welfare reforms during the 1990s. This book helps correct that imbalance. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example, Elna C. Green looks at issues and trends related to two centuries of relief for the needy and dependent in the urban South. Throughout, she links her findings to the larger narrative of welfare history in the United States. She ties social-welfare policy in the South to other southern histories, showing how each period left its own mark on policies and their implementation--from colonial poor laws to homes for children orphaned in the Civil War to the New Deal's public works projects. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGreen also covers the South's ongoing urbanization and industrialization, the selective application of social services along racial and gender lines, debates over the \"deserving\" and \"undeserving\" poor, the professionalization of social work, and the lasting effects of New Deal money and regulations on the region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis groundbreaking study sheds light on a variety of key public and private welfare issues--in history and in the present, and in terms of welfare recipients and providers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elna C. Green\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820352632\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820352633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Elna C. Green","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48441362579711,"sku":"9780820352633","price":98.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cf576d2d-3391-4db3-a922-65405d717610.jpg?v=1777190413","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-business-of-relief-elna-c-green-9780820352633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}