Articles, essays, book chapters, and reviews on welfare reform and charity in the United States, by Stephen T. Ziliak
Associate editor and author, Public Assistance: Colonial Times to the 1920s (Stephen T. Ziliak with the assistance of Joan Underhill Hannon), Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to the Present (Cambridge University Press and U. S. Bureau of the Census, 2006). General Eds. Susan B. Carter, Richard Sutch.
Not a lot changed during the first 400 years of welfare. Strange but true. See Important legislation and events affecting social welfare policy: 1601–1997, compiled by Stephen Ziliak, Joan Hannon, and Price Fishback, and Melissa Thomasson.
If you’re excited about privatization and the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, read Stephen T. Ziliak’s Self-Reliance Before the Welfare State: Evidence from the Charity Organization Movement in the United States, Journal of Economic History 64 (2, June 2004): 433-461.
And: Stephen T. Ziliak’s Kicking the Malthusian Vice: Lessons from the Abolition of `Welfare’ in the Late Nineteenth Century, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 37 (2, Summer 1997), pp. 449-68. Published in a special issue on the comparative history of welfare reform, 19th and 20th century: with Robert Margo, Joan Underhill Hannon, Kyle Kauffman, and Lynn Kiesling. Here is the pdf: Kicking the Malthusian Vice _ Ziliak thesis chp-1995
And especially: Stephen T. Ziliak, The End of Welfare and the Contradiction of Compassion, The Independent Review I (1, Spring 1996), pp. 55-73.
Now for something completely different, but also true: Stephen T. Ziliak’s Pauper Fiction in Economic Science: `Paupers in Almshouses’ and the Odd Fit of Oliver Twist, Review of Social Economy 55 (2, June 2002), pp. 159-181. Winner of the 2002 Helen Potter Award for “Best Article in Social Economics,” Association for Social Economics.
See also:
Stephen T. Ziliak, Some Tendencies of Social Welfare and the Problem of Interpretation, Cato Journal 21 (3, Winter 2002), pp. 499-513.
Stephen T. Ziliak, Poor Law—United States. Pp. 274-7 in John M. Herrick and Paul H. Stuart, eds., Encyclopedia of Social Welfare in the United States (New York: Sage Publications, 2004).
Stephen T. Ziliak review of A. B. Atkinson’s The Economic Consequences of Rolling Back the Welfare State (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999), Journal of Economic Literature 39 (1, March 2001), pp. 144-6. Ziliak JEL review of Atkinson Welfare State
Ziliak review of Paul A. Jargowsky’s Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City (1997), Journal of Economic History 58(1), March 1998, pp. 264-266.
Ziliak review of Ada F. Haynes’ Poverty in Central Appalachia (1997), Journal of Economic History 58(1), March 1998, pp. 264-266.
Ziliak review of Irwin Unger’s The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society Under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (1996), Economic History Association, EH-Net, October 1998.
Ziliak review of James L. Payne’s Overcoming Welfare: Expecting More from the Poor and from Ourselves (New York: Basic Books, 1998), The Independent Review IV (1, Summer 1999), pp. 144-7.
Ziliak review of Michael J. Graetz and Jerry L. Mashaw’s True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), Journal of Economic History (June 2000).
Ziliak review of Gary R. Lowe and P. Nelson Reid’s The Professionalization of Poverty: Social Work and the Poor in the Twentieth Century (Hawthorne: Aldine de Gruyter, 1999), Journal of Economic History (Fall 2000).
Zilaik review of Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee’s The Road to Poverty: the Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (1, Summer 2001), pp. 144-6.
Ziliak review of David Hammack’s, ed., Making the Non-Profit Sector in the United States: A Reader (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), Journal of Economic History (March 2001).
Ziliak review of Hugo A. Keuzenkamp’s Probability, Econometrics, and Truth: The Methodology of Econometrics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), Journal of Economic History 61 (2, June 2001), pp. 578-80.
Ziliak review of Joel Schwartz’s Fighting Poverty with Virtue: Moral Reform and America’s Urban Poor, 1825-2000 (Indiana University Press, 2000), The Independent Review 6 (2, Spring 2002).
Ziliak review of Alice O’Connor, Chris Tilly, and Lawrence D. Bobo, eds., Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities, Journal of Economic History 61 (4, Dec. 2001), pp. 1145-6.
Ziliak review of Steven King’s Poverty and welfare in England, 1700-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2000), Economic History Association, EH-Net, October 2001.
Ziliak review of Steven King’s Poverty and welfare in England, 1700-1850, Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Fall 2002).
Ziliak review of Robert A. Margo’s Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820- 1860, International Review of Social History 47 (3, Dec. 2002), pp. 496-99.
Ziliak review of Sheldon Danziger and Robert Haveman, ed., Understanding Poverty, Journal of Economic History 62 (4, Dec. 2002), pp. 1165-6.
Ziliak review of Jeffrey Sklansky’s The Soul’s Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920, Journal of Economic History 63 (3, 2003), pp. 903-5.
Ziliak review of Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark D. McGarvie’s Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History, Journal of Economic History 64 (1, March 2004), pp. 273-4.
Ziliak review of Peter Saunder’s The End and Means of Welfare, Economic Record 80 (250, September 2004), pp. 346-57.
Ziliak review of Jonathan A. Glickstein’s American Exceptionalism/American Anxiety: Wages, Competition, and Degraded Labor in the Antebellum United States, International Review of Social History 49 (2, 2004).
Ziliak review of Jocelyn Elise Crowley’s The Politics of Child Support in America, EH-Net (the on-line publication of the Economic History Association). March 2004.