"We the disinherited of this land" : Kinship with the poor, 1929/ 1956 -- "We have a powerful instrument" : Rights unionism and the cold war, 1957/ 1963 -- "Northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men" : Labor and civil rights at the crossroads, 1964/ 1966 -- "In God's economy" :...

The Reagan and Bush years left us with a troublesome dilemma: how to balance our budget deficit against our social deficit. This book takes up the urgent question of how, in a time of budgetary stringency, we can meet the pent-up demand for spending on our nation's neglected poor, ill, and...