Lecture Outlines

Introduction: Key Words and Concepts

Social Welfare in Early America
* Trattner, From Poor Law to Welfare State, chaps. 1-4

Discovery of the Asylum
* David Rothman, Discovery of the Asylum, chaps. 8 and 9
* “Rules and Regulations of the Salem Almshouse” (1816)
* Recall: Trattner, chap. 4
FIRST PAPER DUE!

Urban Poverty: New York as Case Study
Film: “Five Points”
* Tyler Anbinder, Five Points, chaps. 3 & 4

Scientific Charity and Social Control
Film: “1877: The Grand Army of Starvation”
* Paul Boyer, Urban Masses and Moral Order, chaps. 8 & 10
* Joel Schwartz, Fighting Poverty with Virtue, 3-14, 137-139
* Trattner, chap. 5

Southern Poverty after Slavery’s End
* Jacqueline Jones, The Dispossessed, chaps. 3 & 4
* “The New Slavery in the South — An Autobiography: A Georgia Negro Peon” (1904)

State Power and Child Protection
* Peter Stevens & Marian Eide, “The First Chapter of Children’s Rights”
* Linda Gordon, “Feminism, Family Violence, and Social Control”
* Trattner, chap. 6

State Power and Public Health
* Trattner, chap. 7
* Judith Walzer Leavitt, “Gendered Expectations”
* S. Josephine Baker, Fighting for Life (1939), chap. 4

No Class

Reformers & the Urban Poor: Jacob Riis & Social Photography
* Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1899), intro & chaps. 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 15,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25 http://www.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/contents.html
* Recall: Boyer, chap. 10
* [Begin reading Kusmer, Down and Out, On the Road ]

Reformers & the Urban Poor: Social Settlements
* Trattner, chap. 8
* Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), preface & chaps. 5, 7 & 8
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhouse.html
* Anzia Yezierska, “Free Vacation House”
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/yezierska/hearts/hearts.html#IV
* Recall: Boyer, chap. 10; Gordon, “Feminism, Family Violence, and Social Control”
* [Keep reading Kusmer, Down and Out, On the Road ]

Social History of the Homeless
Film: Charlie Chaplin, “The Tramp”
* Kusmer, Down and Out, On the Road, chaps. 1-8

Tramps and Tramping in the 20th Century
* Kusmer, Down and Out, On the Road, entire
FOOTNOTE CHASE ASSIGNMENT DUE!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Winter Term:

Gender, Maternalism, and Welfare
* Barbara Nelson, “The Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State”
* Karen Tice, “Mending Rosa’s Working Ways”
* Trattner, chaps. 9, 10, 12 (focus on chap. 10)
* Recall: Addams, Twenty Years & Gordon, “Feminism, Family Violence & Social Control”

Origins and Character of America’s ‘Welfare State’
* Theda Skocpol, “State Formation and Social Policy in the United States”
* Edward Berkowitz & Kim McQuaid, Creating the Welfare State, intro
* Jill Quadagno, The Color of Welfare, intro
* Recall: Nelson, “Origins of the Two-Channel Welfare State” & Trattner, chap. 10

The New Deal
Film: “We Have a Plan”
* Trattner, chap. 13
* Frances Fox Piven & Richard A. Cloward, Regulating the Poor, intro, chaps. 2 & 3
* Recall: Nelson, all the readings from last week, & Kusmer, chap. 10

Hard Times in the Great Depression
* Donald Worster, “The Black Blizzards Roll In”
* John Steinbeck, “Starvation under the Orange Trees” (1938)
* Meridel LeSueur, “Women on the Breadlines” (1932)
* “The Great Depression in Rural America” (1932)
* “The Great Depression in Philadelphia” (1933)
* “The Bronx Slave Market” (1935)
* Studs Terkel, Hard Times, 49-56, 58-65, 82-83, 261-264
PAPER TOPIC AND PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE!

Poverty in a Land of Plenty
Film: “Harvest of Shame” (1960)
* Trattner, chap. 14 (to p. 318)
* Michael Harrington, The Other America (1962), chap. 1
* César Chávez, “The Organizer’s Tale” (1966)
* Jessie de la Cruz, "The First Woman Farmworker Organizer Out in the Fields"
* Harry Kubo, from With These Hands
* Recall: Terkel interview with César Chávez
* [Recommended: Piven & Cloward, Regulating the Poor, chap. 5]

The War on Poverty
Film: “America’s War on Poverty: City of Promise”
* Joseph A. Califano, Jr., “How Great Was the Great Society*”
* Piven & Cloward, Regulating the Poor, Part III
* [Recommended: Trattner, finish chap. 14]

Reading Week – No Class

The War on Poverty: Documents from the 1960s
* Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Negro Family: A Case for National Action (1965)
http://dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm
* Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968)
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545

Feminism and Welfare Rights
* Trattner, chap. 15 (esp. to 348)
* Johnnie Tillmon, “Welfare is a Women’s Issue” (1972)
* Premilla Nadasen, “Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement”
* Elena Gutiérrez, “Policing Pregnant Pilgrims”

The ‘Underclass’ Debate
* Charles Murray, Losing Ground, 3-9, 178-191, 219-236.
* Elijah Anderson, “The Code of the Street”
* William Julius Wilson, “The Hidden Agenda”
* Robin Kelley, Race Rebels, introduction
* Trattner, chaps. 15 (finish) & 16 (to p. 376)

Ending Welfare as We Know It
* Trattner, chap. 16 (finish) & 17
* Bill Clinton, “Remarks on Welfare Reform” (1996)
* Kathryn Edin and Laura Lein, “Making Ends Meet on a Welfare Check”
* Recommended: Piven and Cloward, Regulating the Poor, chap. 11
* [Begin Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed]
RESEARCH ESSAY DUE!

Documenting Poverty at the Century’s End: Working Poor
* Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed (entire)

Summing Up: Past, Present & Future of Welfare
* “Working Toward Independence: Bush Administration Proposal”
* Theda Skocpol, “Working Families: the Centerpiece for Reform” (2000)
http://www.ourfuture.org/projects/next_agenda/ch3.cfm
* Frances Fox Piven, “Globalization, American Politics and Welfare Policy”
* Gwendolyn Mink, “Violating Women: Rights Abuses in the Welfare Police State”
* Christopher Jencks, “What Happened to Welfare*” http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18565