When The Welfare People Come

Race and Class in the US Child Welfare System

Don Lash (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2017
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-743-3 (ISBN)

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Analyzes the history of the U.S. child welfare system and its implications today, offering ideas for reform and building solidarity.

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. Applying the Marxist framework of social reproduction theory to the child welfare system, the author reveals the system's role in the regulation of family life under capitalism.

Don Lash: Don Lash is an attorney who has practiced in the areas of disability rights, education and child welfare for more than twenty years.

Chapter One: The “Orphan Trains” Then and Now

Chapter Two: Moving Toward a Racialized Child Welfare System

Chapter Three: Over-representation of Black and Indigenous Children

Chapter Four: Foster Youth

Chapter Five: Foster Parents

Chapter Six: Juvenile “Justice”

Chapter Seven: Toiling Inside the Bureaucracy

Chapter Eight: The Future of Child Welfare?

Chapter Nine: Real Reform

Chapter Ten: Child Welfare and Social Reproduction

Chapter Eleven: Socialism and the Parent-Child Relationship

Erscheinungsdatum	08.02.2017
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	141 x 219 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-60846-743-0 / 1608467430
ISBN-13	978-1-60846-743-3 / 9781608467433
Zustand	Neuware