"When the Welfare People Come" : race and class in the US child protection system / / Don Lash
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Lash Don
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| Titolo: |
"When the Welfare People Come" : race and class in the US child protection system / / Don Lash
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, Illinois : , : Haymart Books, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 362.70973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Child welfare - United States |
| Foster home care - United States | |
| Parent and child - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | The "orphan trains" : then and now -- Moving toward a racialized child welfare system -- Parents with disabilities -- Foster youth -- Foster parents -- Juvenile "justice" -- Toiling inside the bureaucracy -- The future of child welfare -- Real reform -- Child welfare and social reproduction -- Socialism and the parent-child relationship -- Appendix : from rights to reality : a plan for parent advocacy and family-centered child welfare reform. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this groundbreaking look at the history and politics of the US child welfare system, 'When the Welfare People Come' exposes the system in its totality, from child protective investigation to foster care and mandated services, arguing that it constitutes a mechanism of control exerted over poor and working class parents and children. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | When the Welfare People Come" |
| ISBN: | 1-60846-750-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910164877403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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