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Public welfare -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project oral histories

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00524
Overview This collection consists of interviews conducted by Tamar Carroll for her dissertation on women's community activism in New York City, circa 1955-1995, including activists involved in Mobilization For Youth on New York City's Lower East Side and members of the National Congress of Neighborhood Women.
Dates: 1970 - 2010
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / New York City Women Community Activists Oral History Project oral histories

Richard A. Cloward papers

 Collection
Identifier: SSC-MS-00466
Overview Richard A. Cloward was a sociologist and social activist who was an architect of the welfare rights movement and the co-author of a groundbreaking critique of the welfare state as a tool for containing social unrest. Included are electronic mail, correspondence, memorandums and articles about Cloward's and Frances Piven’s social welfare activism; correspondence, clippings, and writings about Cloward's legal entanglements with Brandeis and Columbia Universities; Frances Piven's appointment...
Dates: 1944 - 2006
Found in: Sophia Smith Collection of Women's History / Richard A. Cloward papers
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