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Social Welfare and Public Health

 

Billington, Monroe Lee, and Cal M. Clark, “New Mexico Clergymen’s Perceptions of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Fall 2009), 521–44.

Hartley, Benjamin L., “Philadelphia’s ‘Five Points’: Evangelism and Social Welfare at the Bedford Street Mission,” Methodist History, 48 (Oct. 2009), 10–22.

Hughes, Quenby Olmsted, “Red Flame Burning Bright: Communist Labor Organizer Ann Burlak, Rhode Island Workers, and the New Deal,” Rhode Island History, 67 (Summer–Fall 2009), 43–60. Heavily illustrated.

Koyama, Kumiko, “The Passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act: Why Did the President Sign the Bill?,” Journal of Policy History, 21 (no. 2, 2009), 163–86.

MacLeavy, Julie, and Columba Peoples, “Workfare Warfare: Neoliberalism, Active Welfare, and the New American Way of War,” Antipode, 41 (Nov. 2009), 890–915.

Malczewski, Joan, “Weak State, Stronger Schools: Northern Philanthropy and Organizational Change in the Jim Crow South,” Journal of Southern History, 75 (Nov. 2009), 963–1000.

Muncy, Robyn, “Women, Gender, and Politics in the New Deal Government: Josephine Roche and the Federal Security Agency,” Journal of Women’s History, 21 (Fall 2009), 60–83.

Pavic, Denis, and Ivan Balta, “Uzroci velike gospodarske krize u SAD-u i Hooverovo upravljanje krizom” (Causes of the Great Depression in the United States and Hoover’s crisis management), Povijesni zbornik: Godisnjak za kulturu i provijesno naslijede/ Sveuciliste J. J. Strossmayera u Osijeku, Filozofski fakultet, Odsjek za povijest, 1 (no. 1–2, 2006–2007), 137–55. In Croatian.

Sugita, Yoneyuki, “Senryô shoki ni okeru minshuka no sôkoku” (Competing ideas for health insurance plans in the early stages of the U.S. occupation of Japan), Ex Oriente, 15 (2008), 89–118. In Japanese.

Thompson, Jerry, “Bean Farmers and Thunder Mugs: Russell Lee’s 1940 Farm Security Administration Photographs and Letters of Pie Town and Catron County,” New Mexico Historical Review, 84 (Fall 2009), 463–520. Heavily illustrated.

 

Fleit, Shelley Arrian, “The Influence of Organizational Structure on Hospital Social Work Practice and Professional Identity” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2008). Order No. DA3338210.

Kenney Walsh, Kaitlyn, “Deadlock: A Political Economy Perspective on the Massachussetts Health Policy Reform Experience” (Northeastern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336495.

Regensburg, Margaret, “The Religious Sisters of the Good Shepherd and the Professionalization of Social Work” (State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2007). Order No. DA3337604.

Tsuchiya, Kazuyo, “Contesting Citizenship: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Participation in the U.S. and Japanese Welfare States, 1962–1982” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3336649.

 

Nishiyama, Takayuki, Amerikagata fukushikokka to toshiseiji (American welfare state and urban politics: Historical transition of urban liberalism in New York City). (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2008. 324 pp. ¥6,500, isbn 978-4-13-036231-3.) In Japanese.

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