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Fate, Responsibility, and "Natural" Disaster Relief: Narrating the American Welfare State
Ist Teil von
Law & society review, 1999-01, Vol.33 (2), p.257-318
Ort / Verlag
Beverly Hills, Calif: Law and Society Association
Erscheinungsjahr
1999
Quelle
Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This essay argues that the history of the American welfare state is inextricably bound up with disaster relief. It focuses on the New Deal, which was justified using numerous precedents drawn from the previous 150 years of federal disaster relief. After sketching this early history, including the development of a compelling moral narrative of fault and blame, I examine congressional speeches, briefs filed in the central legal cases of the New Deal by the Roosevelt administration and its opponents, Steinback's Grapes of Wrath, and photographs taken by New Deal employees to trace how the Depression was narrated as a "disaster" whose victims were entitled to federal relief.