America Before Welfare SCIENCE / Energy workers and migrants from every

workers and migrants from every corner of the country converged to make a new life for themselves near the economic hub of Johannesburg

this book encourages a more elemental rethinking of our connections to nature

on a more personal level

It is of crucial importance that—for the sake of the future of humanity—Einstein’s message continues to proliferate

America Before Welfare SCIENCE / Energy workers and migrants from everyAmidst the current debates on the future of welfare, one voice has been conspicuously absent: that of the unemployed and underprivileged. The result of almost a half century of research, America Before Welfare traces the leadership and activities of the unemployed from industrialization to the outbreak of World War II. It is at once a profound work of history and an anecdotal window onto America's past, in the days before FDR's New Deal.