Course Kit 2006-2007

Volume 1 (Fall Term)

David Rothman, The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971), 180-236, 345-352. ISBN 1199373249. 376 pages.

“Rules and Regulations of the Salem Almshouse” (1816), pp. 102-105. From Seth Rockman, Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2003) ISBN 0-312-39821-2. 187 pages

Tyler Anbinder, Five Points: The 19th-Century New York City Neighborhood That Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World’s Most Notorious Slum (New York: Free Press, 2001), 72-105, 111-140, 452-465. ISBN 0-684-85995-5. 532 pages.

Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), 121-131 & 143-161, 325-328, 331-335. ISBN 0-674-93109-2. 387 pages

Joel Schwartz, Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825-2000 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 3-14 & 137-139. ISBN 0-253-33771-2. 353 pages

Peter Stevens & Marian Eide, “The First Chapter of Children’s Rights,” in American Experiences: Readings in American History, 4th ed., vol. 2, eds. Randy Roberts & James S. Olson (New York: Longman, 1998), 58-67. ISBN 0-321-01031-0. 339 pages.

Linda Gordon, “Family Violence, Feminism, and Social Control,” Feminist Studies 12 (Fall 1986): 452-478. Reprint from Unequal Sisters, eds. Ellen DuBois and Vicki Ruiz (New York: Routledge, 1990), 141-156. ISBN 0-415-90272-X. 473 pages.

Jacqueline Jones, The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (New York: Basic Books, 1992), 73-126, 310-324. ISBN 0-465-00127-). 399 pages.

“The New Slavery in the South — An Autobiography: A Georgia Negro Peon,” in Plain Folk: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans, eds. David Katzman and William Tuttle Jr. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983), 151-163. Orig. publ. in The Independent (1904). ISBN 0-252-00906. 198 pages.

Judith Walzer Leavitt, “Gendered Expectations: Women and Early Twentieth-Century Public Health,” in U.S. History as Women’s History: New Feminist Essays, eds. Linda Kerber, Alice Kessler-Harris & Kathryn Kish Sklar (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 147-169, 390-396. ISBN 0-8078-2185-3. 477 pages.

S. Josephine Baker, Fighting for Life (New York: Macmillan, 1939), 64-87. 264 pages.

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History 4069 Course Kit
Vol. 2:

Barbara Nelson, “The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State: Workmen’s Compensation and Mothers’ Aid,” in Women, the State and Welfare, ed. Linda Gordon (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990), 123-151. ISBN 0-299-12664-1. 311 pages.

Karen Tice, “Mending Rosa’s Working Ways,” in ‘Bad’ Mothers: the Politics of Blame in Twentieth-Century America, eds. Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky (New York: New York University Press, 1998), 31-40. ISBN 0-81475120-2. 411 pages.

Theda Skocpol, “State Formation and Social Policy,” in Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), 11-36. ISBN 0-691-03786-8. 326 pages.

Edward D. Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid, Creating the Welfare State: the Political Economy of 20th-Century Reform, rev. ed. (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1992), 1-10. ISBN 0-7006-0528-2. 247 pages.

Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 1-15. ISBN 0-19-510122-7. 254 pages.

Donald Worster, “The Black Blizzards Roll In,” in American Experiences: Readings in American History, vol. 2, 4th ed., eds. Randy Roberts & James S. Olson (New York: Longman, 1998), 174-182. ISBN 0-321-01031-0. 339 pages.

John Steinbeck, “Starvation Under the Orange Trees,” in America and Americas and Selected Nonfiction, eds. Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson (New York: Viking Press, 2002), pp. 83-87. Orig. pub. Monterey Trader, 15 April, 1938.
ISBN 0-670-03062-7. 429 pages

Meridel LeSueur, “Women on the Breadlines,” in Constructing the American Past: A Source Book of a People’s History, ed. Elliot Gorn et al. vol. 2, 3rd ed. (New York: Longman, 1999), 182-184. ISBN 0-321-00219-9. 329 pages. Orig. pub. New Masses (1932).

"The Great Depression in Rural America," from Speaking of America: Readings in US History, vol. 2 (Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth, 2007), 587-588. ISBN 0-495-05018-0. 887 pages,

”The Great Depression in Philadelphia, 1933,” and “Bronx Slave Market (1935),” in The Way We Lived: Essays and Documents in American Social History 2nd ed., eds. Frederick M. Binder and David M. Reimers (Lexington, MA: D.C. Health and Company, 1992), 197-200, 202-203. ISBN 0-669-24475-9. 326 pages.

Studs Terkel, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (New York: Pantheon, 1970), 49-56, 58-65, 261-264. 529 pages.

Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States (Baltimore: Penguin, 1965 [1962]), 9-24.

César Chávez, “The Organizer’s Tale (1966),” in César Chávez, A Brief History with Documents, ed. Richard Etulain (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002), 26-35. ISBN 0-312-25739-2. 138 pages.

Jessie de la Cruz, "The first woman farmworker organizer out in the fields" in Women's America: Refocusing the Past 4th ed., eds. Linda K. Kerber and Jane Sherron De Hart (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 486-493. ISBN 0-19-509147-7. 634 pages. Originally published in Moving the Mountain, ed. Ellen Cantarow (Feminist Press, 1980).

Harry Kubo, oral history in Daniel Rothenberg, With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998), 76-79. ISBN 0-15-10020503. 334 pages.

Joseph A. Califano, Jr., “How Great Was the Great Society?” in Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents, ed. Bruce J. Schulman (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1995), 178-184. ISBN 0-312-08351-3. 269 pages.

Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare is a Women’s Issue,” in Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger (New York: New York University Press, 2003), 373-379. ISBN 0-8147-5654-9. 811 pages. Originally published in Ms. (Spring 1972): 111-116.

Premilla Nadasen, “Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights,” Feminist Studies 28.2 (Summer 2002): 271-301.

Elena Gutiérrez, “Policing ‘Pregnant Pilgrims’: Situating the Sterilization Abuse of Mexican-Origin Women in Los Angeles County,” in Women, Health and Nation: Canada and the United States Since 1945 eds. Gina Feldberg et al. (Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2003), 379-403. ISBN 0-7735-2501-7. 438 pages.

Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (New York: Basic, 1984), 3-9, 178-191, 219-236. ISBN 0-465-04232-5. 323 pages.

Elijah Anderson, “The Code of the Street,” in Wealth and Poverty in America, ed. Dalton Conley (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 254-266. ISBN 0-631-23180-3. 301 pages.

William Julius Wilson, “The Hidden Agenda,” in Wealth and Poverty in America: A Reader, ed. Dalton Conley (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003), 254-266. ISBN 0-631-23180-3. 301 pages. Excerpted from The Truly Disadvantaged (University of Chicago Press, 1985), 149-64.

Robin D.G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class (New York: Free Press, 1994), 1-13, 229-232. ISBN 0-02-916706-X. 351 pages.

Bill Clinton, “Remarks on Welfare Reform (August 22, 1996),” in Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger (New York: New York University Press, 2003), 658-662. ISBN 0-8147-5654-9. 811 pages.

Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, “Making Ends Meet on a Welfare Check,” in Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Surve Welfare and Low-Wage Work (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997), 20-59, 274-278.

“Working Toward Independence: Bush Administration Proposal,” in Welfare: A Documentary History of U.S. Policy and Politics, eds. Gwendolyn Mink and Rickie Solinger (New York: New York University Press, 2003), 764-766. ISBN 0-8147-5654-9. 811 pages.

Frances Fox Piven, “Globalization, American Politics, and Welfare Policy, in Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond, eds. Randy Albelda and Ann Withorn (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002), 27-41. ISBN 0-89608-649-3. 244 pages.

Gwendolyn Mink, “Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the Welfare Police State,” in Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond, eds. Randy Albelda and Ann Withorn (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002), 95-112. ISBN 0-89608-649-3. 244 pages.