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

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Chad Alan Goldberg

Citizens and Paupers

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

Chad Alan Goldberg

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University of Chicago Press
01 April 2008

History of the Americas; Social issues & processes; Poverty & unemployment; Social welfare & social services; Civil rights & citizenship

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.

Citizens and Paupers 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.

This combustible mix of racial tension and social reform continues to influence how we think about welfare, and Citizens and Paupers is an invaluable analysis of the roots of the debate.

By: Chad Alan Goldberg
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780226300771
ISBN 10: 0226300773
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 April 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chad Alan Goldberg is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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

""This outstanding book incisively recasts the history of the American welfare state as a series of struggles over the terms of citizenship. Through a succession of carefully researched and artfully drawn historical case studies, Goldberg demonstrates that conflict over the citizenship status of welfare beneficiaries played a major role in the fundamental battles about race, class, and gender that shaped the nation."" - Robert C. Lieberman, author of Shaping Race Policy""