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The Welfare-Industrial Complex
Gruber, Murray | June 28, 1971 issue

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This article focuses on the annual National Conference on Social Welfare held on May 16, 1971 in the U.S. Against the backdrop of divided cities, disastrously high unemployment, the folly of Southeast Asia, and the narrowing of parliamentary possibilities, the conference was torpid. The conferees seemed sedated by a queer politics of illusion, in which words came to stand for deeds and events, a bad portent for the prospects of liberal reform. While explosive forces keep building, forces that threaten to crack the society, the social workers seemed unwittingly frozen into alliance with the emerging corporate-welfare imperium.

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CONGRESSES & conventions; PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL workers; UNEMPLOYMENT; SOUTHEAST Asia; UNITED States
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