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Legal assistance to the poor

Here are entered general works on legal services to the poor. Works on organized programs for providing legal assistance to the poor, usually under the sponsorship of local bar associations or governmental units, are entered under Legal aid.

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• Legal services
• Public welfare
• Poor

• Public defenders

• Legal assistance to the poor -- Louisiana
• Legal assistance to the poor -- United States
• Legal aid

• Judicare
• Law, Poverty
• Legal representation of the poor
• Poor -- Legal status, laws, etc.
• Poverty law
• Pro bono publico legal services

• The Case for Community Defense in New Orleans (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Christopher Muller (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Poverty Law Report, by Southern Poverty Law Center (partial serial archives)

• Under Arrest! Workers' Self-Defense in the Courts (pamphlet #5; ca. 1933), by International Labor Defense (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is the I.L.D.? (New York: International Labor Defense, 1934), by International Labor Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Labor Defense: Manifesto, Resolutions, Constitution: Adopted by the First National Conference, Held in Ashland Auditorium, Chicago, June 28, 1925 (Chicago: International Labor Defense, ca. 1925), by International Labor Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The State of Justice (Hamlyn Lectures, #51; London: Sweet and Maxwell, 2000), by Michael Zander (PDF in the UK)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Case for Community Defense in New Orleans (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2006), by Christopher Muller (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Vivek Maru and Varun Gauri (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities, by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)
• Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps, by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)

• In the Shadow of Plenty: The Biblical Blueprint for Welfare (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey, by Patricia A. Ebener and Jacob Alex Klerman (PDF files at rand.org)
• Welfare Reform in California: State and County Implementation of CalWORKs in the First Year, by Gail Zellman, Jacob Alex Klerman, Elaine Reardon, Donna Farley, Nicole Humphrey, Tammi Chun, and Paul Steinberg (PDF files at rand.org)

• Europe's Welfare Burden: The Case for Reform (c2002), by Benny Carlson, Alan Deacon, Hans Hoogervorst, Wilfried Prewo, and Jason A. Turner (PDF at Civitas)

• An End to Welfare Rights: The Rediscovery of Independence (c1999), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Benefit Dependency: How Welfare Undermines Independence (c1998), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Memoir on Pauperism (London: Civitas, c1997), by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. by Seymour Drescher, contrib. by Gertrude Himmelfarb (PDF at Civitas)
• Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform (c1996), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Ending Dependency: Lessons From Welfare Reform in the USA (c2001), by Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis, Jay Hein, Donald K. Jonas, and Amy L. Sherman, contrib. by Alan Deacon (PDF at Civitas)
• Stakeholder Welfare (c1996), by Frank Field, ed. by Alan Deacon, contrib. by Peter Alcock, David G. Green, and Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)
• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)
• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Welfare Titans: How Lloyd George and Gordon Brown Compare; and Other Essays on Welfare Reform (c2002), by Frank Field (PDF at Civitas)

• Labour on the Land: Containing a Plan for the Employment of the Destitute Poor on Agricultural Occupations; With Observations on the Working of the Present Systems (1846), by S. W. Blackall (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Deborah E. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ending Dependency: Lessons From Welfare Reform in the USA (c2001), by Douglas J. Besharov, Peter Germanis, Jay Hein, Donald K. Jonas, and Amy L. Sherman, contrib. by Alan Deacon (PDF at Civitas)
• Electronic Delivery of Public Assistance Benefits: Technology Options and Policy Issues (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Welfare, Work and Poverty: Lessons from Recent Reforms in the USA and the UK (c2000), ed. by David Smith, contrib. by John Clark, Norman Dennis, Jay Hein, and Richard Pryke (PDF at Civitas)
• Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions, by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbeé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• Behind the Bars (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1871), by Adeline T. P. Lunt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Child Health and Human Rights (1994), by James P. Grant (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children (Chicago: Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, 1930), by Elias L. Trotzkey (page images at HathiTrust)
• That Last Waif: or, Social Quarantine (New York: F. A. Stokes co., 1909), by Horace Fletcher (Gutenberg text)
• Marriage and the Child (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940), by James H. S. Bossard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, by Graça Machel (HTML with commentary at UNICEF)

• The Pulse of Humanitarian Assistance (New York: Fordham University Press, and Center for International Humanitarian Coooperation, 2007), ed. by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• To Bear Witness: A Journey of Healing and Solidarity (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Kevin M. Cahill (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• Story of Near East Relief (1915-1930): An Interpretation (New York: Macmillan, 1930), by James L. Barton, contrib. by Calvin Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Evolution of Sickness and Healing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997), by Horacio Fabrega (HTML at UC Press)
• Sociology and the Field of Public Health (New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1963), by Edward Allen Suchman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health (final commission report; Geneva: World Health Organization, 2008), by WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health (PDF at who.int)
• Essays in Medical Sociology (2 volumes; London: E. Bell, 1902), by Elizabeth Blackwell
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (2003), ed. by Brian D. Smedley, Adrienne Y. Stith, and Alan R. Nelson (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform (c1996), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Man vs. the Welfare State (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1970), by Henry Hazlitt (PDF at mises.org)
• Reinventing Civil Society: The Rediscovery of Welfare Without Politics (c1993), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• The State, by Anthony De Jasay (HTML at econlib.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.