402 Pages
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Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
399 Pages
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Routledge
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Social welfare has a three-thousand-year history in Western society. This book offers a sociological framework that provides conceptual order to the countless details of that history, while highlighting its essentials. Social welfare in all its forms is based on one central concept--help. But there are many versions of help and multiple debates about those versions. The outcomes of some debates... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Preface, Acknowledgments, Prologue, Chronology, I INTRODUCTION, II CHARITY AND PHILANTHROPY, III PUBLIC WELFARE, IV SOCIAL INSURANCE, V SOCIAL SERVICE, VI MUTUAL AID, VII CONCLUSION, References, Glossary, Index
Biography
Bernice Neugarten
