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Examines local welfare practices, policies, and debates during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a diverse collection of western communities. Krainz investigates how communities used poor relief, mothers' pensions, blind benefits, county hospitals, and poor farms, as well as explains the roles that private charities played in sustaining needy residents.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political activism

• Full title: Delivering Aid
• Subtitle: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West
• Author: Thomas A. Krainz
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 339
• EAN: 9780826330260
• ISBN: 9780826330260
• ID: 06323160
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. January 2011

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