| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States. By Premilla Nadasen. (New York: Routledge, 2005. xx, 310 pp. Cloth, $85.00, ISBN 0-415-94578-X. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-415-94579-8.)

Premilla Nadasen's Welfare Warriors is an important reminder of why we need history to show us the present. Her excellent study of the welfare rights movement brings unprecedented detail to the politics of welfare and the mass movement for welfare rights and dignity from 1960 to 1975. Welfare rights struggles brought tens of thousands of people to the streets; opened up access to welfare to most who needed it; pressed for and often won special grants for clothing, furniture and other household needs, and, with more limited success, access to credit for welfare recipients; established the right to due process for welfare recipients; and attempted to move welfare away from casework to a guaranteed annual income.

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