- Creating a National Home
- Patrick J. Kelly
- Looking to the federal government for shelter and medical assistance, disabled Civil War veterans found help at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Drawing on political, cultural, welfare, and gender studies, Patrick Kelly illustrates that the creation of the National Home at once defined an entitled group and prepared the way for the later expansion of both the welfare and the warfare states.
- Hardcover 1997
- The Politics of German Child Welfare from the Empire to the Federal Republic
- Edward Dickinson
- Edward Dickinson traces the story of German child welfare policy over an extended period of conflict and compromise among competing groups-progressive social reformers, conservative Protestants, Catholics, Social Democrats, feminists, medical men, jurists, and welfare recipients themselves.
- Hardcover 1996
- Practical Idealists
- Alissa Wilson
- Ann Barham
- John Hammock
- Paperback 2008
- Reclaiming Public Housing
- Lawrence J. Vale
- In Reclaiming Public Housing, Lawrence Vale explores the rise, fall, and redevelopment of three public housing projects in Boston. Vale looks at these projects from the perspectives of their low-income residents and assesses the contributions of the design professionals who helped to transform these once devastated places during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Hardcover 2002
- Understanding Poverty
- Sheldon H. Danziger, Editor
- Robert H. Haveman, Editor
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002