| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Thomas A. Krainz. Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 325. $37.95.

Thomas A. Krainz writes an eloquent and effective reconsideration of Progressive Era welfare historiography by going to ground level and studying welfare practices in six diverse Colorado counties in the early twentieth century. A former social worker, Krainz drew part of his inspiration from the jarring contrast between his practical knowledge of the daily experiences of the poor and disabled and the historical writing about welfare he encountered in graduate school. He aims to accomplish three things: to populate his study with the poor themselves, to query what we can learn about welfare history from social work theory by setting it against social work practice, and to question portraits of Progressive-era welfare that emphasize reform (at least in the eyes of the reformers) effected by legislative and/or regulatory policy change.

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