"Dependency as a problem to be solved": Rehabilitation and the American liberal consensus on welfare in the 1950s

Social Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 228-257

  Mittelstadt, Jennifer ^a  

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EID: 0035537431     PISSN: 10724745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sp/8.2.228     Document Type: Review

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