... century, as the book charts how the history of asylums and prisons were inextricably intertwined. It argues that the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric hospitals and social welfare policy, and vice versa. The book offers critical insight into how the prison...

... Edward Robison Howard Steiger William Williams Harrison O’Rourke Lawrence Reston James Tiede Tom Harry Holt Friends Meeting for the Sufferings of Vietnamese Children South Vietnamese Ministry for Social Welfare GI Babies Orphan Visa Petition Committee of Responsibility Children’s Medical...

... Employee Free Choice Act Los Angeles National Labor Relations Act NLRA Part time workers Temporary workers Vertical integration Class Solidarity Day Committee of the Evolution of Work PATCO Recession Ronald Reagan union political action social welfare state The 1970s union organizing push...

..., even as southern Democrats remained in power, the social welfare policies and public spending priorities of southern states changed in the 1920s as a consequence of woman suffrage....

...The introduction reviews the relevant histories of prisons, mental health policy, and the social welfare state. It highlights how recent scholarship has not connected the history of mental hospitals to the broader history of imprisonment. From Asylum to Prison frames historic...

... Reconciliation Act PRA Prisons and prisoners Sanderson Catherine African American women social welfare public institutions women's movement Philadelphia On foot and by bus, tens of thousands of African American women, with young children in tow and papers in hand, made their way from impoverished...

... widespread throughout the colonial world in the context of an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration to the Caribbean, and new attitudes toward medicine and society. Invested in the success of the “great experiment” of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare...

... discusses the National Irrigation Association's emphasis on the business benefits of homemaking in the West and proposed alternatives to homemaking, along with the significance of the Reclamation Act of 1902 to Maxwell's family ideal in relation to other social welfare reforms. Finally, it highlights...

... Club New Deal Depression Social service Emergency Relief Committee Birth control Eugenics Margaret Sanger Race relations Social welfare With the women’s vote Gertrude had envisioned an ideal society, but in the 1930s she confronted a state and nation mired in the Great Depression. A champion...

...This chapter describes how union organizing developed as the gateway through which workers had to enter before they could fully access the most secure tier of the nation’s employer-centered social welfare system - - collective bargaining. It recounts how labor law’s protections for union organizing...

... social concerns, since many states lacked adequate community-based mental health services. In Pennsylvania, Republican governor Dick Thornburgh closed mental hospitals and cut social welfare programs, strengthening neoliberalism in the state’s government. At the same time, he supported law and order...

... borders of a fragmented urban bureaucracy. Combining critical policy study and ethnography, and drawing on current scholarship as well as personal experience as a welfare program manager, the book demonstrates how social welfare “silos” construct the lives of youth as disconnected, reinforcing unforgiving...