America Before Welfare

by Franklin Folsom

Overview

Amidst the current debates on the future of welfare, one voice has been conspicuously absent: that of the unemployed and underprivileged. The result of almost a half-century of research, America Before Welfare traces the leadership and activities of the unemployed from industrialization to the outbreak of World War II. It is at once a profound work of history and an anecdotal window onto America's past, in the days before FDR's New Deal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814726679
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	10/01/1996
Edition description:	REISSUE
Pages:	574
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.41(d)

About the Author

Described by the Village Voice as,"an autodidact in the finest American tradition," the late Franklin Folsom was a journalist, editor, and activist, as well as the author of numerous books.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Will appeal to all interested in U.S. history . . . . a splendid example of 'history from the bottom up.'"

-New York Review of Books,

"A heroic and even optimistic history, a narrative of the struggles of oppressed people and their progressive allies against social injustice."

-The Nation,

"Gracefully written and assiduously researched."

-Village Voice Literary Supplement,

"Lively and compelling."

-Eric Foner,Columbia University

"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style."

-Howard Zinn,author of A People's History of The United States

Editorial Reviews

"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style."

Howard Zinn

"Gracefully written and assiduously researched."

Village Voice Literary Supplement

"A heroic and even optimistic history, a narrative of the struggles of oppressed people and their progressive allies against social injustice."

The Nation

"Lively and compelling."

Eric Foner

"Will appeal to all interested in U.S. history . . . . a splendid example of ‘history from the bottom up.'"

New York Review of Books

"A heroic and even optimistic history, a narrative of the struggles of oppressed people and their progressive allies against social injustice.”

- The Nation

"Eloquent, exciting, inspirational, and an important piece of the forgotten history of people's struggles for justice in the United States. Folsom has done an extraordinary ob of research, and he writes with great style.”

-Howard Zinn,author of A People's History of The United States

"Gracefully written and assiduously researched."

- Village Voice Literary Supplement

"Will appeal to all interested in U.S. history . . . . a splendid example of 'history from the bottom up.'”

- New York Review of Books

"Lively and compelling."

-Eric Foner,Columbia University

From the Publisher