THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WELFARE: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND THE CONSTRAINTS ON WORK RELIEF IN THE 1930'S (SOCIAL SECURITY ACT)
This dissertation develops a theory of the functioning of a welfare, or income-maintenance, system in the United States economy; it tests this theory with evidence from the 1930's. Our current welfare system grows out of the 1935 Social Security Act, passed during the Great Depression of the 19...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1985
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8602685 |