Building the Invisible Orphanage

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Building the Invisible Orphanage is written by Matthew A. Crenson and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674029992 (ISBN 10) and 9780674029996 (ISBN 13).

This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare in America. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory of the welfare system was played out not on the stage of national politics or class conflict but in the micropolitics of institutional management.